High-volume, cost-sensitive work
Either one
Both cost $4.00 per million tokens on a typical mix of three input tokens for every output token.
Choose Kimi K3.1 Pro for the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
Each answer below comes straight from the published prices, specifications and independent benchmark results.
Either one
Both cost $4.00 per million tokens on a typical mix of three input tokens for every output token.
Choose Kimi K3.1 Pro
Kimi K3.1 Pro is the newer release (Oct 23, 2026, against Sep 22, 2026 for GPT-6 Sol Pro).
| Volume | GPT-6 Sol Pro | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prototype: 1M input, 250K output tokens | $4.50 | $4.50 | = |
| Production: 20M input, 5M output tokens | $90.00 | $90.00 | = |
| Scale: 500M input, 100M output tokens | $2,000 | $2,000 | = |
Standard rates, without caching or batch discounts. Volumes are per month.
| GPT-6 Sol Pro | Kimi K3.1 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Category | Language models | Language models |
| Status | Generally available | Generally available |
| Headline price | $4.00 / 1M tokens | $4.00 / 1M tokens |
| Input | $2.00 / 1M tokens | $2.00 / 1M tokens |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M tokens | $10.00 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.20 / 1M tokens | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 128k | 944k |
| Released | Sep 22, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | No data | No data |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Capabilities | Vision, Reasoning, Tool calling, Structured output, Prompt caching | Vision, Reasoning, Tool calling, Structured output, Prompt caching |
| API model id | gpt-6-sol-pro | kimi-k3.1-pro |
Choose Kimi K3.1 Pro for the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
Both cost the same at the headline price ($4.00 / 1M tokens).
GPT-6 Sol Pro reads more per request: 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
GPT-6 Sol Pro is made by OpenAI and Kimi K3.1 Pro by Moonshot AI. Both cost the same at the headline price ($4.00 / 1M tokens). GPT-6 Sol Pro reads more per request: 1.05M tokens against 1.05M. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the newer model (Oct 23, 2026, against Sep 22, 2026).
At 20 million input and 5 million output tokens a month, GPT-6 Sol Pro costs $90.00 and Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $90.00, at standard rates.
Kimi K3.1 Pro was released on Oct 23, 2026 and GPT-6 Sol Pro on Sep 22, 2026.