A $2 near-frontier model, a $0.10 API, two AI actions
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro and OpenAI's Decisions API arrive with new prices, Texas sues OpenAI over what its ads left out, and SEC examiners are told to watch AI phishing and deepfakes.
Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $2 and $10 per million tokens, with weights promised by Nov 4
The token price is only part of the cost of a task. Artificial Analysis measured 150 million output tokens for its index against a median of 81 million, and a speed of 46.3 tokens per second. A job billed at $10 per million output tokens can cost more and run slower than the rate card suggests. Moonshot's scores are vendor-run, and the chart mixes its own harness with rivals' published numbers. Several rows differ by 2 points or less. Weights are promised but not released, so self-hosting is a plan and not an option today. Run one recurring task of your own and compare cost per finished task.
At a glance
- Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro October 23 at $2 in and $10 out per million tokens; open weights are promised by November 4.
- OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available October 22 at $0.10 per million input tokens, with no output-token charge.
- Texas sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on October 23 under its consumer-protection and SCOPE Acts; the claims are allegations.
- SEC examiners' fiscal 2027 priorities, out October 23, cover AI use and AI-enabled attacks; the SEC's wording is "super intelligence."
Worth deciding this week
- Run one recurring task on Kimi K3.1 Pro and compare cost per finished task with your current model.
- Test Decisions on 50 labeled examples from one routing task before comparing cost.
- Read your AI feature ads and help text for accuracy or safety claims, and note the proof for each.
- List every AI tool that touches customer data and who approved it.