InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5/vs/moonshotai/kimi-k3
Claude Opus 5.5 costs from $8.00 per million tokens and Kimi K3 from $2.74 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Quality rank from public evaluations. 1 = best. | Coding quality rank from public evaluations. 1 = best. | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. |
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| Rank 39 of 84 (tied) · score 78.7/100 · Nov 14, 2026 | Rank 15 of 52 · score 77.4/100 · Nov 14, 2026 | Most expensive offer · $9.00. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.45, most favourable value of the column | $9.60, most favourable value of the column | An offer with no training on prompts at the lowest price. | $160.56, most favourable value of the columnat Wafer via OpenRouter | 118 | 60, most favourable value of the column | 1M | |
| Rank 1 of 84 · score 99.1/100 · Nov 14, 2026, most favourable value of the column | Rank 1 of 52 · score 98.4/100 · Nov 14, 2026, most favourable value of the column | Most expensive offer · $8.80. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $4.00 | $20.00 | An offer with no training on prompts at the lowest price. | $540.00at Anthropic | 64 | 25 | 1M |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Cheaper, similar quality
vs Claude Opus 5.5Score within 3 points out of 100 in the same quality board, blended price at least 10% lower.OverallRank 1 of 84 · score 99.1/100 · Nov 14, 2026
No model within 3 points is at least 10% cheaper.
CodeRank 1 of 52 · score 98.4/100 · Nov 14, 2026
| Model | Coderank | Gappts | Blended$/1M | Saving% | |
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| Rank 2 of 52 · score 97.0/100 · Nov 14, 2026 | −1.4 | 4.00 | 50 | Compare |
Prices as of Nov 15, 2026, 3:47 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.