Kimi vs Gemini API pricing

Checked against the official price pages on 2026-10-12

In short

At 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, the cheapest model from each is kimi-k2.7-code (about ¥1,190 a month) and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (about ¥539 a month). Gemini's entry model is cheaper; Kimi's costs about 2.2 times as much.

The most expensive from each is kimi-k3 (about ¥4,000 a month) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (about ¥2,963 a month). Price says nothing about whether the models are equally capable; weigh it with benchmarks and context length.

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Prices are per million tokens: ¥ is CNY, $ is USD; time-of-day pricing is written peak / off-peak. Monthly cost is in CNY and assumes 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, no cache hits and half of calls at peak hours where that applies, cheapest first. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

Model	Input	Cache hit	Output	Monthly (CNY)
GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	$0.3	$0.03	$2.5	539
GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash	$0.75	$0.075	$3.75	1,010
Kimikimi-k2.7-code	¥6.5	¥1.3	¥27	1,190
Kimikimi-k2.6	¥6.5	¥1.1	¥27	1,190
GoogleGemini 3.1 Pro Preview	$2	$0.2	$12	2,963
Kimikimi-k3	¥20	¥2	¥100	4,000

Price changes at both vendors

2026-07-16
Kimi K3 launched (≈2.8T parameters, 1M-token context). International list price: $3 input / $15 output per million tokens (our Aug 27 issue). The China site now lists ¥20 input / ¥100 output. source · our coverage
2026-09-30
Kimi K3.1 appeared on the API platform; the official price page does not list it yet. source · our coverage

Kimi vs Gemini API pricing

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