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GPT-6 ASTRA COSTS 3.3× MORE PER AGENT TASK. I ROUTE 9/10 TASKS TO KIMI K3 INSTEAD

Name: GPT-6 ASTRA COSTS 3.3× MORE PER AGENT TASK. I ROUTE 9/10 TASKS TO KIMI K3 INSTEAD
Uploaded: 2026-09-11T15:04:27.000Z
Channel: Gipp 🦅
Description: GPT-6 ASTRA COSTS 3.3× MORE PER AGENT TASK. I ROUTE 9/10 TASKS TO KIMI K3 INSTEAD most people are comparing benchmarks. the bigger difference is price: Astra is $10/$50 per 1M tokens, while Kimi K3 is still $3/$15. local model → Kimi K3 default → GPT-6 Astra only when the task is genuinely…

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GPT-6 ASTRA COSTS 3.3× MORE PER AGENT TASK. I ROUTE 9/10 TASKS TO KIMI K3 INSTEAD most people are comparing benchmarks. the bigger difference is price: Astra is $10/$50 per 1M tokens, while Kimi K3 is still $3/$15. local model → Kimi K3 default → GPT-6 Astra only when the task is genuinely reasoning-heavy on a 50K input + 8K output agent task, that is roughly $0.90 for Astra vs $0.27 for Kimi. with a 70% cache hit, it drops to $0.585 vs $0.176. the performance gap is smaller than the invoice suggests too. Astra scores 84.11 composite vs 80.53 for Kimi, but Kimi is ahead on coding at 78.1 v

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