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.
Kimi K3
Zai Glm 5 TurboKimi 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.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Zai Glm 5 Turbo: $3.9996/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 1531; Zai Glm 5 Turbo: 1496 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
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 Zai Glm 5 Turbo accepts 204,800 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 131,072 tokens on Zai Glm 5 Turbo.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Zai Glm 5 Turbo at 10.2 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; Zai Glm 5 Turbo accepts text input.
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