Kimi K3 Inference Speed Revealed, Optimization Needed
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-07-17
OpenRouter data shows that Kimi K3 currently runs at about 26 tps, only half the speed of Claude 3 Opus. The author speculates that speculative decoding (spec decoding) isn't enabled yet and expects significant speed improvements once optimized using community frameworks like vllm or sglang.
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