Fireworks says Kimi K3 matches Opus 5 closely on 663 coding tasks while costing 2.3x less
lqiao · x · 2026-07-28
Fireworks compares Kimi K3 with Opus 5 on 663 agentic coding tasks
- Fireworks says Kimi K3 and Opus 5 are very close in task-level quality across SWE (480), Algorithmic (100), and Terminal (83) tasks.
- On their benchmark, Opus 5 is slightly ahead overall on accuracy (92.6 vs 90.6 average), but Kimi K3 is much cheaper per task when priced via Fireworks serverless inference.
- Reported per-task costs:
- SWE: $0.52 vs $1.05 — Kimi 2.0x cheaper
- Algorithmic: $0.064 vs $0.18 — 2.8x cheaper
- Terminal: $0.35 vs $1.61 — 4.6x cheaper
- Average: $0.43 vs $0.99 — 2.3x cheaper
- The team says the key metric is per-task cost, not per-token cost, because open models often produce longer outputs.
- They say they will keep improving serving efficiency through Fireworks Inference and model quality through Fireworks Training.
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