Models

Kimi K3 vs Zai Glm 5 Turbo

Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Zai Glm 5 Turbo from Z.AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi 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.

Input$3$2.7 /M
Output$15$13.5 /M
Cache read$0.3$0.27 /M
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Zai Glm 5 Turbo
Z.AI · → text

Input$1.2 /M
Output$3.9996 /M
Cache read$0.24 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Kimi K3
Zai Glm 5 Turbo
Input /M
$3$2.710%
$1.2
Output /M
$15$13.510%
$3.9996
Cache read /M
$0.3$0.2710%
$0.24
Context length
1,048,576
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Max output
1,048,576
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Time to First Token
0.9 s
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Throughput
73.1 tok/s
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Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
kimi-k3zai-glm-5-turbo
1420146015001540
Overall
14581486
Coding
14961531
Math
14391439
Hard prompts
14791505
Instruction following
14481479
Multi-turn
14711499
Creative writing
14501470
Longer query
14711502
Chinese
15261527
English
14711491

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Zai Glm 5 Turbo
$132 /mo
Kimi K3
$405$365 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Zai Glm 5 Turbo?

Zai Glm 5 Turbo: $3.9996/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Kimi K3: 1531; Zai Glm 5 Turbo: 1496 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Can I call Kimi K3 and Zai Glm 5 Turbo with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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