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Command A vs Kimi K3
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 29 4.7 | 73 8.1 |
| Family | Command | Kimi |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | — |
| Context Window | 256K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $2.50/M tokens | $3.00/M tokens |
| Output Price | $10.00/M tokens | $15.00/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Official Kimi pricing lists kimi-k3 at $3.00 per 1M cache-miss input tokens, $0.30 per 1M cache-hit input tokens, and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. Official troubleshooting docs say max_completion_tokens defaults to 131,072 and maximum output length is 1024*1024 minus prompt tokens. |
| Capabilities | textcode | textvisionreasoningcodingtool-usestructured-outputjson-modelong-contextagentic |
| Max Output | 8K tokens | 131K tokens |
| API Identifier | cohere/command-a | kimi-k3 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU | 80.1openrouter | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | — | 57artificial-analysis |
| AA-Briefcase | — | 1543artificial-analysis |
| AA-Briefcase Rubric Pass Rate | — | 51artificial-analysis |
| View Command A | View Kimi K3 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command ACheapest | $2.50 | $5.00 | $7.50 | — |
| Kimi K3 | $3.00 | $7.50 | $10.50 | +40% |
Cohere
Command A
Command A is a large language model from Cohere. Supports up to 256,000 token context window. Achieves 80.1% on MMLU. Available from $2.50/M input tokens.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI open-weight 2.8T-parameter flagship model for long-horizon coding, end-to-end knowledge work, reasoning, and native multimodal understanding. Official Kimi documentation lists the API model ID kimi-k3, a 1M-token context window, automatic context caching, tool calls, JSON mode, structured outputs, and always-on reasoning effort controls.
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