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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Vendor	~deepseek	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	73.9
Input Price	$0.10/M	$3.00/M
Output Price	$0.49/M	$15.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	943,718
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	71.9

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
SQL Generation	133	140
Code Review	132	145
Code Completion	131	117
Code Refactoring	136	147
Bug Fixing	136	149
Unit Test Generation	124	132
Code Documentation	131	134
Regex Writing	119	123
CI/CD Pipelines	120	128
Frontend Component Design	122	130
Data Analysis	124	134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	135
ETL Scripting	128	138
JSON Extraction	131	120
Bulk Data Labeling	129	116
OCR / Document Parsing	131	134
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	134
Long-Document Summarization	137	147
Short-Form Summarization	123	116
Blog Post Writing	121	128

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →