Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) vs Kimi K3 (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) by Google or Kimi K3 (Max) by Kimi? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $4222

KimiKimi K3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 43.60
Total cost: $3658

Verdict

Pick Kimi K3 (Max)

Kimi K3 (Max) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (High): 33.7% more intelligence, 13.4% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 278.9% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)	Kimi K3 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	43.6	+33.7% Kimi K3 (Max) is 33.7% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$4,222.12	$3,658.07	−13.4% Kimi K3 (Max) is 13.4% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	16.65s	63.08s	+278.9% Kimi K3 (Max) is 278.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $9.00	$3.00 / $15.0
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
Kimi K3 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.10 for $3117.

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