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Claude Opus 5 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $0.007 per request and Claude Opus 5 costs $0.0175, so Kimi K3.1 Pro is about 2.5× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #9 and Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks #2.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5Kimi K3.1 Pro
Input$5$2
Output$25$10
Cached input$0.5$0.2
ProviderAnthropicKimi
Release date2026-07-242026-10-23
Overall rank#9#2
Coding rank#6—
Reasoning rank#9—
Knowledge rank#15—
Professional work rank#7—
Verified2026-10-312026-10-31
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5Kimi K3.1 ProDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2.5× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2.5× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2.5× cheaper

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