{"id":245873,"date":"2026-10-23T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/kimi-ai-with-k3-1-pro"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:08:10","slug":"kimi-ai-with-k3-1-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/kimi-ai-with-k3-1-pro","title":{"rendered":"Kimi AI with K3.1 Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kimi K3.1 Pro beats every listed US frontier model on 6 of 14 benchmarks in Moonshot\u2019s evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>At $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, its standard token rates are 50% below Opus 5.5 ($4\/$20!!) and 80% below GPT-6 Astra ($10\/$50!!) <\/p>\n<p>In other words: SOTA much cheaper, local running (with enough compute) <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Big AI News: Moonshot AI just announced Kimi K3.1 Pro!<\/p>\n<p>Here is everything you need to know about this massive new release:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 Key Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>* SOTA Performance for Less: Beats listed US frontier models on 6 out of 14 key benchmarks, matching or outperforming models like Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on coding, agentic, and knowledge tasks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/kimi-ai-with-k3-1-pro\">Continue reading \u201cKimi AI with K3.1 Pro\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi K3.1 Pro beats every listed US frontier model on 6 of 14 benchmarks in Moonshot\u2019s evaluations. At $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, its standard token rates are 50% below Opus 5.5 ($4\/$20!!) and 80% below GPT-6 Astra ($10\/$50!!) In other words: SOTA much cheaper, local running (with enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}