Kimi K3.1 Pro vs R1 Distill Llama 70B

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Data updated on November 14, 2026· 230 models

MoonshotK3.1 Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro is Moonshot AI's flagship open-weight multimodal reasoning model and a post-trained successor to Kimi K3, with a 1M-token context window.

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Reasoning estimated
Speed estimated
Input
Output
Context
▲1 M tokens
Max output
▲944 K
Input, $ per 1M tokens
$2.00
Output, $ per 1M tokens
$10.00
Cache read, $ per 1M
$0.200
Batch (input / output)
$0.700 / $6.00
Tool calling
Yes
Released
▲10/23/2026
Knowledge cutoff
—
API id
moonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro
DeepSeekLlama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, using outputs from DeepSeek R1.

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Reasoning estimated
Speed estimated
Input
Output
Context
8 K tokens
Max output
7 K
Input, $ per 1M tokens
▲$0.800
Output, $ per 1M tokens
▲$0.800
Cache read, $ per 1M
—
Batch (input / output)
—
Tool calling
Yes
Released
01/01/2025
Knowledge cutoff
—
API id
deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
Third model (optional)
text image audio video PDF / file reasoning (1 to 5, estimated by family) speed (1 to 4, estimated by family)▲ best value among the selected

Which is the better API choice: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs R1 Distill Llama 70B?

  • R1 Distill Llama 70B: cheapest input (60% less than Kimi K3.1 Pro)
  • R1 Distill Llama 70B: cheapest output
  • Kimi K3.1 Pro: largest context (1 M)
  • Kimi K3.1 Pro: the newest (10/23/2026)

R1 Distill Llama 70B costs 60% less on input and 92% less on output than Kimi K3.1 Pro ($0.800 / $0.800 versus $2.00 / $10.00 per million tokens). Kimi K3.1 Pro accepts more context (1 M). On capabilities, Kimi K3.1 Pro accepts images. Kimi K3.1 Pro offers a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.

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Kimi K3.1 Pro
$70.00/mo
R1 Distill Llama 70B
$15.20/mo

With R1 Distill Llama 70B you save $54.80 a month versus Kimi K3.1 Pro (78% less).

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Paste your prompt: tokens and cost per model

Rough estimate (about 4 characters per token). Nothing is sent to any server.

76tokens approx.287 characters

Cost of sending it 1,000 times (input only)

  1. 1Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic$0.008
  2. 2R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek$0.061
  3. 3Kimi K3.1 Pro Moonshot$0.152
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Frequently asked questions

Which is the better API choice: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs R1 Distill Llama 70B?

R1 Distill Llama 70B costs 60% less on input and 92% less on output than Kimi K3.1 Pro ($0.800 / $0.800 versus $2.00 / $10.00 per million tokens). Kimi K3.1 Pro accepts more context (1 M). On capabilities, Kimi K3.1 Pro accepts images. Kimi K3.1 Pro offers a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.

Which is cheaper: Kimi K3.1 Pro and R1 Distill Llama 70B?

R1 Distill Llama 70B is cheaper: $0.800 per million input tokens and $0.800 per million output tokens, versus $2.00 / $10.00 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.

Which has more context: Kimi K3.1 Pro and R1 Distill Llama 70B?

Kimi K3.1 Pro accepts 1 M tokens of context; R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8 K.

Which is newer: Kimi K3.1 Pro and R1 Distill Llama 70B?

Kimi K3.1 Pro was released on 10/23/2026; R1 Distill Llama 70B on 01/01/2025.

What would 10,000 requests a month cost with Kimi K3.1 Pro and R1 Distill Llama 70B?

With 1,500 input and 400 output tokens per request: Kimi K3.1 Pro: $70.00; R1 Distill Llama 70B: $15.20 a month, at list price.

Where do the prices come from and how often are they updated?

From the public catalogs of OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM, which publish each provider's list prices. They sync once a day and the last update date is shown above the comparison.

What does price per million tokens mean?

It is what the provider charges per million tokens you send (input) or the model generates (output). A token is roughly 4 characters. Output almost always costs more than input.

Sources: OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM. Prices in USD per million tokens, list price, no volume discounts. Prompt tokens are an estimate; each provider's tokenizer may differ.