GPT-5 vs Kimi K3
GPT-5 
Kimi K3 Verdict
- Kimi K3 leads on quality: 66.5 vs 59.9.
- GPT-5 is stronger in instruction following, reasoning.
- Kimi K3 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, multimodal, maths.
- GPT-5 is 1.7× cheaper ($3.44 vs $6.00 per 1M blended).
- GPT-5 streams 1.8× faster (70 vs 38 tokens per second).
| Metric | GPT-5 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 59.9 | 66.5 |
| Agents & tools score | 51.0 | 67.4 |
| Coding score | 61.0 | 65.0 |
| Composite score | 58.0 | 74.2 |
| Human preference score | 61.8 | 71.2 |
| Instruction following score | 67.7 | – |
| Knowledge score | 62.2 | 68.2 |
| Long context score | 65.6 | 71.1 |
| Multimodal score | 59.6 | 65.0 |
| Reasoning score | 64.2 | – |
| Maths score | – | 78.1 |
| Blended price $/M | $3.44 | $6.00 |
| Output speed | 70 tok/s | 38 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 77.2 s | 56.3 s |
| Context window | 400k | 1.0M |
| Terminal-Bench | 49.6% | – |
| SciCode | 42.9% | 58.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.7% | – |
| WeirdML | 39.8% | – |
| APEX-Agents | 18.3% | 39.3% |
| FrontierCode | – | 44.2% |
| ProofBench | – | 87.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150 | 157.6 |
| LMArena Text | 1427 | – |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1449 | – |
| LMArena Coding | 1463 | – |
| LMArena Vision | 1232 | – |
| LiveBench | – | 79.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | – | 90.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | – | 81.5% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | – | 62.2% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | – | 84.4% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | – | 78.7% |
| LiveBench Language | – | 85.5% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.0 | 43.8 |
| IFBench | 73.1% | – |
| AA-LCR | 78.2% | 88.7% |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.2% | 80.5% |
| AA-Omniscience | -8.7 | 19.7 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 32.6% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 85.3% | 93.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 28.5% | 46.9% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 59.5% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 84.8% | – |
| LegalBench | – | 86.0% |
| CorpFin | – | 71.6% |
| TaxEval | – | 75.7% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | – | 80.9% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | – | 93.4% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | – | 92.9% |
| Vals Index | – | 57.8 |
| PRBench Finance | 51.3% | – |
| PRBench Legal | 49.0% | – |
| VISTA | 49.7% | – |
| MultiNRC | 52.1% | – |
| TutorBench | 55.3% | – |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1339 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 72.7% | – |
| Aider Polyglot | 88.0% | – |
| SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold) | 75.6% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
GPT-5 vs Kimi K3: questions
- Is GPT-5 better than Kimi K3?
- Kimi K3 leads on quality: 66.5 vs 59.9. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Kimi K3 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is GPT-5 better than Kimi K3 for coding?
- Kimi K3 scores higher in coding (65 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is GPT-5 better than Kimi K3 for agentic tasks?
- Kimi K3 scores higher in agentic tasks (67 vs 51 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Kimi K3?
- GPT-5 is cheaper: $3.44 against $6.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, GPT-5 or Kimi K3?
- GPT-5 streams faster: 70 against 38 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Kimi K3 accepts more context: 1.0M against 400k tokens.