Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Mai Thinking 1 from Microsoft on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Kimi K3
Mai Thinking 1Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft’s first inference model in the MAI series, built for enterprise-scale workloads. With excellent reasoning, mathematical, and general intelligence capabilities, combined with superior cost-effectiveness, it makes high-throughput, 24/7 AI workloads economically viable.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Mai Thinking 1: $8/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Mai Thinking 1 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 256,000 tokens on Mai Thinking 1.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Mai Thinking 1 at 41.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Mai Thinking 1 accepts text input and supports thinking and structured outputs.
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