Kimi-3 Review: Matches Sol in Performance but Consumes More Tokens
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-20
A third-party developer added kimi-3 to their Surface Evolver Bench test. Results show that the model's score is on par with Fable 5 and Sol (xhigh). However, because kimi-3 consumes a massive amount of tokens, its actual usage cost is higher than Sol.
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