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GPT-5.6 Sol 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 GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.014, so Kimi K3.1 Pro is about 2× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard GPT-5.6 Sol ranks #15 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 tokensGPT-5.6 SolKimi K3.1 Pro
Input$4$2
Output$20$10
Cached input$0.4$0.2
ProviderOpenAIKimi
Release date2026-07-092026-10-23
Overall rank#15#2
Coding rank#9—
Reasoning rank#5—
Knowledge rank#8—
Professional work rank#26—
Verified2026-10-312026-10-31
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageGPT-5.6 SolKimi K3.1 ProDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.014$14 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.44$440 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3$3,000 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Kimi K3.1 Pro is 2× cheaper

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