Step 5 Preview costs $0.72 per AA task vs $2.00 for Kimi K3 — pure pricing, not token usage
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-22
Artificial Analysis calculated that Step 5 Preview costs $0.72 per Intelligence Index task, versus $2.00 for same-scoring Kimi K3 (max) and $2.01 for GLM-5.3 (max) at one point higher. The gap isn't token usage — output tokens were 164M vs 170M for Kimi K3 — it's pure pricing ($1/$2.70 vs $3/$15 per 1M tokens). MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the only model scoring higher (46) at lower cost ($0.13).
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