DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017vs.Kimi K3
Which one is better?
Level in the overall index: the gap is too small for a clear winner. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is cheaper: Kimi K3 costs 20 times (input) and 25 times (output) as much per token.
64
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Rank 14 to 22
59
Kimi K3
Rank 18 to 24
178
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
fast
55
Kimi K3
slow
$0.26
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
cheap
$6
Kimi K3
expensive
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
- Subscription
No DeepSeek subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €6.36 a month (Token Plan Individual Lite, with limited credits). 7 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$0.15 input, $0.60 output per 1M tokens according to the provider; the price index has listed it at $0.30 and $1 since Oct 26, 2026.
Kimi K3
- Subscription
At Moonshot AI from ≈ €20.14 a month (Kimi Plus, with limited credits). Through other providers from ≈ €1.06 a month (Command Code Go, with limited credits). 45 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$3 input, $15 output per 1M tokens, unchanged since our price tracking began on Aug 14, 2026.
- Note
- There is a successor: Kimi K3.1 Pro (rank 10 to 13, $2 input, $10 output).
Overall index with data through Oct 29, 2026 · Prices from Oct 29, 2026 · Speed: measured by Artificial Analysis · Subscriptions as of Oct 24, 2026 · Subscription prices incl. VAT
Where is the difference?
Values from 0 to 100 per task area. We only name a winner when the gap is large enough and there are enough tests.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ahead: 2Kimi K3 ahead: 1level: 3too little data: 4of 10 areas
AreaDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Kimi K30 to 100, higher is betterResult
Areas in the overall index
CodingDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 72Kimi K3: 48
ReasoninglevelDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45Kimi K3: 53
Mathematicsonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 55
KnowledgeKimi K3 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 33Kimi K3: 44
AgentsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 75Kimi K3: 49
Generalonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 72
Multimodaltoo little dataDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55Kimi K3: 54
Specialist fields
FinancelevelDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69Kimi K3: 63
LegallevelDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 76Kimi K3: 74
Healthonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 65
Show 3 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
AreaDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Kimi K30 to 100, higher is betterResult
Cybersecurityonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 75
Productivityonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 71
Educationonly Kimi K3 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataKimi K3: 55
See for yourself: same task, one attempt
The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Not tested yet
Kimi K3
Reasoning (requested): high
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- moonshotai/kimi-k3
- API model reported in response
- moonshotai/kimi-k3
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Pinned endpoint
- Moonshot AI | moonshotai/kimi-k3-20260715
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
- Response time
- 173.4 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Earlier attempts (1)
- Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)SVG short test
There is no shared test round for this selection. Results from different rounds are not mixed.
All data side by side
The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.
| Metric | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall index0 to 100, higher is better | 64 | 59 |
| Rank | Rank 14 to 22 of 95 | Rank 18 to 24 of 95 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $0.15 | $3 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $0.60 | $15 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 178 | 55 |
| Technical | ||
| Context windowhow much text the model reads at once | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages |
| Knowledge cutoff | n/a | n/a |
| Released | Oct 17, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
| Availability | Open Source | Active |
| Open weights | yes | yes |
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: At peak times (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 01:00-04:00 UTC; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 06:00-10:00 UTC) the price is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per 1M tokens. The table shows the off-peak price.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Time-based API pricing: Off peak: $0.15 input, $0.60 output, and $0.003 cached input. Weekdays UTC 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00: $0.30, $1.20, and $0.006. Chinese public holidays are excluded. Source
Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis
Shared benchmarks
Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.
A: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017B: Kimi K3
Code MigrationOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.2%Kimi K3: 16.1%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
Code Migration v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 67.5%Kimi K3: 28.6%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
CritPt v2Overall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 24.0%Kimi K3: 23.4%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
EMBOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 61.8%Kimi K3: 66.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69.2%Kimi K3: 71.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 57%Kimi K3: 53.1%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.9%Kimi K3: 60%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
FrontierCode 1.1 MainOverall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 43.7%Kimi K3: 43.6%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
GDPval-AAOverall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,745.77 eloKimi K3: 1,543.13 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Overall · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 14.2%Kimi K3: 12.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Show 54 more benchmarks
Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45.2%Kimi K3: 46.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevOverall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,666Kimi K3: 1,656LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
MMMU-ProOverall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 80.6%Kimi K3: 80.5%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026
Tax Agent BenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.4%Kimi K3: 33.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 31.8%Kimi K3: 17.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 60.9%Kimi K3: 58%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 61.3%Kimi K3: 53%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026
Vals Legal IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 71.9%Kimi K3: 71.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Router IndexOverall · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 61.3%Kimi K3: 53%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 87.7%Kimi K3: 85%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 35.6%Kimi K3: 1.5%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
Code Migration v1.1CLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.2%Kimi K3: 11.4%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBComps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 49.8%Kimi K3: 70.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Comps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 70.8%Kimi K3: 76.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 58.4%Kimi K3: 45.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 66.8%Kimi K3: 61.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 93.5%Kimi K3: 93.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.1%Kimi K3: 63.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevHTML development · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,705Kimi K3: 1,641LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 23.3%Kimi K3: 13.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Hardware · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 6.7%Kimi K3: 13.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexEMB v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69.2%Kimi K3: 71.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals IndexCode Migration v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 68.5%Kimi K3: 22.7%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026
Vals Legal IndexBusiness & Commercial · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 68%Kimi K3: 66.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Router IndexCode Migration · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 68.5%Kimi K3: 22.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Code MigrationCOBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 70%Kimi K3: 60%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
Code Migration v1.1COBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 92.5%Kimi K3: 80%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBDataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 82.8%Kimi K3: 82.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Dataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 86.5%Kimi K3: 83.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45.2%Kimi K3: 41.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 51.3%Kimi K3: 47.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 30%Kimi K3: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 91.3%Kimi K3: 89.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevReact development · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,672Kimi K3: 1,671LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 73.2%Kimi K3: 68.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Media · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 25%Kimi K3: 16.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexFinance Agent v2.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.9%Kimi K3: 60%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals IndexEMB v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69.2%Kimi K3: 71.3%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026
Vals Legal IndexCivil Negligence · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 64.6%Kimi K3: 68.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Router IndexCoding · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.7%Kimi K3: 41.6%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Code MigrationCode Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.992 / 5Kimi K3: 3.899 / 5Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
Code Migration v1.1Code Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.5%Kimi K3: 3.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMBDCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 53%Kimi K3: 56.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1DCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.7%Kimi K3: 64.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Comparables · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 47.5%Kimi K3: 47.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Comparables · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.8%Kimi K3: 59.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Arbitration International Dispute Resolution · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 91.8%Kimi K3: 93.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.2%Kimi K3: 39.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevWeb development · higher is betterDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,666Kimi K3: 1,656LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 56.4%Kimi K3: 45.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0ML · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 42.4%Kimi K3: 21.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexTax Agent Bench · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.4%Kimi K3: 33.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals IndexFinance Agent v2.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.9%Kimi K3: 60%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026
Vals Legal IndexCriminal · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.5%Kimi K3: 64%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
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