Together AI adds Kimi.ai's K3 model, says it beats Claude Fable 5 on coding benchmark for about a third of the cost
The joint test of 452 DeepSWE rollouts shows K3 delivering near‑flagship coding quality at roughly 35% of Claude Fable 5's price, with higher pass@k scores.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X
Why it matters
K3’s claimed performance‑cost edge could reshape developers' choices, giving them a cheaper alternative to flagship coding models while maintaining high quality.
Together AI announced that Kimi.ai’s K3 model will be hosted on its platform starting Monday, July 27th, 2026. In a post on X, the company highlighted a benchmark that pitted K3 against Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 using 452 DeepSWE rollouts. The results, detailed in a blog‑post linked in the tweet, claim that K3 achieves "near‑flagship" coding performance at about 35% of the price of Claude Fable 5, while also pulling ahead on higher pass@k metrics.…
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