The Kimi K3 Moment
A user compares the performance and pricing of the Kimi K3 AI model against Claude, finding them comparable in quality but significantly different in cost. The author argues that US AI regulation is failing by restricting domestic models while leaving users vulnerable to unrestricted foreign alternatives.
I’ve been running Kimi K3 alongside Claude on my normal coding work, and for all practical purposes I can’t tell them apart. Same tasks, same quality of output, and near identical token counts to get there. I expected an open model to be sloppier or to grind through more tokens on the way to the same answer, and neither turned out to be true.
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