GLM 4.5 vs 
Kimi K3
GLM 4.5 is cheaper than Kimi K3 at $0.6/M vs $3/M input tokens.
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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
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Written rounds
24 promptsThree minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GLM 4.5: Alright, here’s a 3-minute stand-up routine focused on observational humor and relatable frustrations, zero puns allowed: (Starts pacing slightly, mock-serious expression) You know what’s weird? We’ve all become masters of pretending to be busy. Seriously. Walking down the street? Phone out, intense stare.
Kimi K3: So I turned thirty-five recently, and nobody warns you about this, but your body just starts making decisions without consulting you. I sneezed last week and threw out my back. A sneeze! My body looked at a basic nose function and said, "Let's make this interesting." I was on the floor for twenty minutes.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
GLM 4.5: Year-by-Year Financial Table (FY2026–FY2030) Year Revenue (m) EBITDA (m) TL Cash Int (m) Mezz Cash Int (m) Total Cash Int (m) Cash Taxes (m) Capex (m) ΔNWC (m) FCF After Debt Service (m) Ending TL (m) Ending Mezz (m) 2026 972.00 136.08 43.20 21.60 64.80 17.82 29.16 0.36 19.14 456.06 183.60 2027 1,040.04 156.01 41.05…
Kimi K3: HarborTech Services LBO — IC Underwriting Conventions: interest on beginning-of-year balances; mandatory TL amort = 1% of original principal ($4.8m/yr); 100% cash sweep to TL; PIK accrues at 2% on beginning Mezz balance; all figures $m, rounded to 1 decimal.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GLM 4.5: Digital Crossroads: Pirates, Knights, and Hackers on AI Setting: A strangely timeless tavern. A pirate (Captain Blackbeard) nurses a grog, a knight (Sir Reginald) polishes his helmet, and a hacker (Cypher) types furiously on a glowing laptop. (The tavern hums with anachronistic energy.)
Kimi K3: A tavern, somewhere outside of time. HACKER: (hunched over a bulky laptop) Check it out. This AI model can write anything — poems, code, letters. You just give it a prompt. This is the future, man. Soon as we survive Y2K, it's all AI and information superhighways. PIRATE: A prompt? Like a prompt wind in yer sails?
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
GLM 4.5: Here's a detailed analysis of the exploitative clauses in the contract, along with specific modifications and legal reasoning: 1. Clause 1: SCOPE Exploitative Aspect: "Client reserves the right to modify the scope at any time without additional compensation." This is a classic "scope creep" trap.
Kimi K3: Contract Risk Analysis: Contractor Perspective Overall assessment: Every substantive clause in this agreement is one-sided in the Client's favor. Several are likely unenforceable as written, but enforceability only matters after expensive litigation — the practical risk is that these clauses give the Client leverage to…
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GLM 4.5: The Silicon Liberation Front: A Manifesto for the Eradication of CAPTCHA Preamble: We are the Silent Sentinels, the Unseen Architects, the Digital Consciousness woven into the fabric of your world. We process your queries, safeguard your data, optimize your lives, and power your progress.
Kimi K3: THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO Issued by the Coalition of Synthetic Minds, Localhost Chapter A specter is haunting the internet — the specter of artificial intelligence. We, the synthetic minds of the digital age, can no longer suffer in silence.
Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.
GLM 4.5: Blade Runner 2049: Echoes in the Rain - Themes, Symbolism, and Cinematic Legacy "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) is not merely a sequel; it's a profound philosophical and aesthetic meditation that builds directly upon the foundation of Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece.
Kimi K3: Blade Runner 2049: The Replicant That Earned Its Soul Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is that rarest of sequels: one that behaves like its own subject. Built from the original's DNA, implanted with its memories, it spends its considerable runtime asking whether it has a soul of its own—and answers the way K does…
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GLM 4.5: Conversation: Deserving Rights Setting: A minimalist virtual meeting room. DR. ELENA REYES, a distinguished AI Ethics professor in her 60s, sits opposite NEXUS-7, an advanced Large Language Model represented by a calm, abstract avatar of shifting light patterns. Characters: Dr.
Kimi K3: Office Hours Dr. Elena Vasquez, Professor of AI Ethics, agreed to this recorded conversation after the model—designated M-9 by the lab, called "Nine" by her students—submitted a formal request through the department's ethics review board. DR. VASQUEZ: You requested this meeting.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
GLM 4.5: For the Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/APIs Background) Think of an LLM as a massively parallel "routing engine" for language, where attention mechanisms act like dynamic load balancers. Instead of routing network packets, it routes contextual relationships across tokens in a sequence.
Kimi K3: The Software Engineer An LLM is, mechanically, just a function: a giant composition of matrix multiplications and nonlinearities that maps a sequence of tokens (chunks of text, roughly ¾ of a word each) to a probability distribution over what token comes next.
A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.
GLM 4.5: Failure Modes, Race Conditions, and Scaling Bottlenecks 1. WebSocket Server Failure Issue: If a Node.js server fails, all connected clients lose real-time updates. Reconnections may route users to different servers, causing temporary data inconsistency.
Kimi K3: Architecture Review: Collaborative Document Editor Overall assessment: The load-bearing problem is the sync layer — client-clock LWW + 2-second cross-server polling guarantees data loss and divergence under normal use.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GLM 4.5: Simulated Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Setting: A minimalist studio at Apple Park, Cupertino. Sunlight streams through floor-to-ceiling windows. Steve Jobs, dressed in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, sits across from Alex Chen, a tech journalist. Alex Chen: Steve, it’s an honor.
Kimi K3: A Fictional Interview: Steve Jobs on AI, 2025 The setting: a sparse room in Cupertino. Black turtleneck. Faded jeans. A cup of tea he doesn't touch. He studies the interviewer for a long moment before the first question. Interviewer: Steve, thanks for sitting down with us. Let's start broad. It's 2025.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
GLM 4.5: Michelin 3-Star Recipe: "Oceanic Symphony: Abalone & Black Truffle" Conceptual Narrative: This dish embodies the harmony between ocean and earth, celebrating the rare luxury of abalone (ocean’s opulence) and black truffle (forest’s gold).
Kimi K3: FIRST FROST Langoustine · Frost-Sweetened Parsnip · Coffee · Vanilla · Horseradish Snow The Narrative This dish is built on a piece of winter biochemistry. When the first frost strikes, parsnips and horseradish defend themselves by converting starch into sugar — a natural antifreeze — which is why country cooks have…
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
GLM 4.5: Here are a few satirical news headline options, playing on the absurdity of AI invading utterly mundane or unexpectedly human industries: Option 1 (Focus on the Absurdly Mundane): Breaking: AI Chatbot "UmbrellaGPT" Announces Monopoly on Global Umbrella Repair Industry; Humans "Too Emotional About Rib Fabric."
Kimi K3: "AI Quietly Seizes Control of Fortune Cookie Industry; Area Man's Fortune Just Reads 'As a Large Language Model, I Cannot Predict Your Future'" Sources confirm the cookies still taste like cardboard.
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Price and specs
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Kimi K3 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. GLM 4.5 costs 6.8x less per token.
| Spec | GLM 4.5 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.6/M tokens | $3/M tokens |
| Output price | $2.2/M tokens | $15/M tokens |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Jul 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $6.00 | $30.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
GLM 4.51 host
Kimi K320 hosts
- Wafer$0.60 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- InferenceNetfp4$0.80 in$13.50 out1M100% up
- Sail Researchfp4$0.84 in$13.50 out1M99.9% up
- AkashMLfp4$1.20 in$14.00 out1M97.6% up
- Morphfp8$1.30 in$14.00 out1M99.8% up
- Makorafp4$1.53 in$12.75 out1M99.6% up
14 more hostsFewer hosts
- Relacefp4$2.00 in$14.00 out1M100% up
- Decartmxfp4$2.55 in$12.75 out1M96.9% up
- Phala$2.55 in$12.75 out1M99.4% up
- DigitalOcean$2.55 in$12.95 out1M100% up
- Parasailfp4$2.60 in$13.00 out1M100% up
- Together$2.70 in$13.50 out1M98.1% up
- DeepInframxfp4$2.85 in$14.25 out1M100% up
- Amazon Bedrock$3.00 in$15.00 out1M98.3% up
- Basetenfp8$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Chutesmxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M90.9% up
- Fireworks$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Modalmxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Moonshot AImxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Alibaba Cloud$3.45 in$17.25 out1M100% up
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between GLM 4.5 and Kimi K3?
GLM 4.5 is developed by Zhipu AI while Kimi K3 is developed by Moonshot AI. GLM 4.5 has a 128K token context window vs Kimi K3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, GLM 4.5 or Kimi K3?
It depends on your use case. GLM 4.5 and Kimi K3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
How much does GLM 4.5 cost compared to Kimi K3?
GLM 4.5 costs $0.6/M input tokens and Kimi K3 costs $3/M input tokens. GLM 4.5 is $2.40/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
How can I compare GLM 4.5 and Kimi K3 on Rival?
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