GPT-6.1 Sol (High) vs Kimi K3 (Max)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 Sol (High) by OpenAI or Kimi K3 (Max) by Kimi? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 50.20
Total cost: $521

KimiKimi K3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 43.60
Total cost: $3658

Verdict

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (High)

Kimi K3 (Max) vs GPT-6.1 Sol (High): 13.1% less intelligence, 601.7% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 22.9% slower end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6.1 Sol (High)	Kimi K3 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	50.2	43.6	−13.1% Kimi K3 (Max) is 13.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$521.32	$3,658.07	+601.7% Kimi K3 (Max) is 7.0× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	45.58s	56.00s	+22.9% Kimi K3 (Max) is 22.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$3.00 / $15.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
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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