Comparing 2 models

Kimi K3 vs Grok 4.5

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric
Model 1Kimi K3
Model 2Grok 4.5
Best for
a General Assistant (#1)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#1)
Provider
moonshotai
x-ai
Context
1.0MBest
500K
Input / 1M
$3
$2Best
Output / 1M
$15
$6Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
Released
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 8, 2026