Grok 4.6 (medium) vs Kimi K3 (max)

SpaceXAI · Kimi · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Grok 4.6 (medium) is cheaper ($1.35 vs $2.31/M); Kimi K3 (max) scores higher on intelligence (43.8 vs 43).

	Grok 4.6 (medium)	Kimi K3 (max)
Speed (tok/s)	50 measured	38.1 measured
Blended $/M	$1.35 derived	$2.31 derived
Intelligence index	43 measured	43.8 measured
TTFT (ms)	2329 measured	376 measured
Context	—	1049k list
Coding index	74 measured	76 measured
Agentic index	51 measured	51 measured

Grok 4.6 (medium) card · Kimi K3 (max) card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.