GPT-6 Sol (High) vs Kimi K3 (Low)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6 Sol (High) by OpenAI or Kimi K3 (Low) by Kimi? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

OpenAIGPT-6 Sol (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 42.40
Total cost: $605

KimiKimi K3 (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 30.10
Total cost: $1190

Verdict

Pick GPT-6 Sol (High)

Kimi K3 (Low) vs GPT-6 Sol (High): 29.0% less intelligence, 96.9% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 287.3% slower end-to-end.

Metric	GPT-6 Sol (High)	Kimi K3 (Low)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	42.4	30.1	−29.0% Kimi K3 (Low) is 29.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$604.52	$1,190.42	+96.9% Kimi K3 (Low) is 96.9% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	14.77s	57.21s	+287.3% Kimi K3 (Low) is 287.3% 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 Sol (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
Kimi K3 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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