This is a price drop from Kimi K3 ($3/$15/$0.30) despite being a slightly larger model (3T vs. 2.8T params).
I'm glad I waited a day to post my analysis of LLM price cuts because it needs...an addition.
Are we sure this is a new pretrain and not them rounding up 2.8T?
Literally from the linked announcement:
> Kimi K3.1 Pro is a post-trained version of Kimi K3, with substantially larger post-training compute
The Kimi K3 announcement (https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3) used 2.8T and it would be weird to round that up for this announcement.
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it's almost certainly rounding up 2.8T
lol, price mtok mean nothing if they substantially generate more reasoning token that would just add more cost to the task