# Grok 4.6 vs Kimi K3

As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Kimi K3 in 1 of 8 shared categories: Science.

Grok 4.6: $3 per 1M blended tokens.

Kimi K3: $4.125 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4.6: closed weights.

Kimi K3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in General LLM at #13 against #48.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Reasoning at #7 against #44.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads Kimi K3 in Science at #10 against #17.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Coding › Web dev at #11 against #20.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Long context at #8 against #41.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Vision at #22 against #24.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Factuality at #19 against #51.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Grok 4.6 in Abstraction (ARC) at #8 against #20.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 is ranked #10 in Science (since Oct 14, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).