Kimi K3 entered the market with a bold claim: number one on the Arena coding leaderboard, ahead of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5. 6 Sol. Then the pricing landed-output at 100 CNY per million tokens, up from K2.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/bestbee/kimi-k3-raised-its-api-price-35x-what-that-tells-product-teams-about-model-routing-cbj)