Kimi K3 scores near the top, but costs $10.57 per task on AA-Briefcase
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-07-22
Kimi K3’s frontier-level AA-Briefcase score comes with a very high cost per task.
- Average cost per task: $10.57.
- That is below only Claude Sonnet 5 (max, $14.43) and Claude Fable 5 ($22.30) among the models shown.
- GPT-5.6 Sol (max) is 42 Elo points lower than Kimi K3 while costing about 50% less per task at $5.32.
- Grok 4.5 (high) is 220 Elo points lower while costing about 90% less at $1.12.
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