Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Kimi K3: API price and specs

Gemini 3.8 Flash is 25% cheaper than Kimi K3 on input price.

Kimi K3 is 2% cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash on output price.

Gemini 3.8 Flash is 13% cheaper than Kimi K3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Kimi K3
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.33	$0.44 +33%
Median input, per 1M	$0.75	$3.00 +300%
Lowest output, per 1M	$1.65 +2.5%	$1.61
Median output, per 1M	$3.75	$15.00 +300%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.66	$0.76 +15.3%
Context	1M	1M
Max output	66K +93.8%	1M
Providers	28 +53.3%	60
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	APAC, EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	audio, file, image, pdf, text, video	application/pdf, file, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text, video, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	yes
Cheapest provider	kenari	aihubmix

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, abacus, aihubmix, aiml, cometapi, cortecs, edenai, fastrouter, github-copilot, impossibl, iteracompute, jiekou, kenari, kilo, meganova, nearai, ofox, opencode, openrouter, perplexity-agent, poe, requesty, standardcompute, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Kimi K3?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is 25% cheaper than Kimi K3 on input price. Kimi K3 is 2% cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash on output price. Gemini 3.8 Flash is 13% cheaper than Kimi K3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Gemini 3.8 Flash or Kimi K3?

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1M tokens; Kimi K3: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Gemini 3.8 Flash and Kimi K3?