AI Daily Insights No. 71 · October 14, 2026
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Kimi vs Mistral API pricing

Checked against the official price pages on 2026-10-14

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 Mistral Large (about ¥539 a month). Mistral'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 Mistral Large (about ¥539 a month). Price says nothing about whether the models are equally capable; weigh it with benchmarks and context length.

For your own usage: API cost calculator

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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).

ModelInputCache hitOutputMonthly (CNY)
Mistral AIMistral Large $0.5—$1.5539
Kimikimi-k2.7-code ¥6.5¥1.3¥271,190
Kimikimi-k2.6 ¥6.5¥1.1¥271,190
Kimikimi-k3 ¥20¥2¥1004,000

Price changes at both vendors

  1. 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

  2. 2026-09-30

    Kimi K3.1 appeared on the API platform; the official price page does not list it yet. source · our coverage

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