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Grok 4.5 vs Kimi K3

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Grok 4.5
xai/grok-4.5
Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
ProviderxAIMoonshot
FamilyGrok 4
Modalitytexttext
Context window500,000 tok1,048,576 tok
Max output32,768 tok32,768 tok
Released2026-07-212026-07-16
Input price$1.00 /1M$3.00 /1M
Output price$1.00 /1M$15.00 /1M
Cache read
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt caching
Grok 4.5
xai/grok-4.5
Full spec →

xAI's Grok 4.5, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling, structured outputs, and configurable reasoning effort (low, medium, high).

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
Full spec →

Kimi K3 is Moonshot's flagship 2.8 trillion-parameter model, built on Kimi Delta Attention (a hybrid linear attention mechanism) with Attention Residuals. It offers native visual understanding, always-on reasoning, and a 1M-token context window for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning tasks.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Grok 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="xai/grok-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Kimi K3 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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