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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-22.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Vendor	deepseek	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	96.9
Input Price	$0.22/M	$3.00/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$15.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	384,000	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	98.5
ai_index_agentic	-	89.5
ai_index_coding	-	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
SQL Generation	133	173
Code Review	132	170
Code Completion	131	118
Code Refactoring	136	167
Bug Fixing	136	185
Unit Test Generation	124	157
Code Documentation	131	141
Regex Writing	119	135
CI/CD Pipelines	120	147
Frontend Component Design	122	149
Data Analysis	124	175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	153
ETL Scripting	128	157
JSON Extraction	131	138
Bulk Data Labeling	129	122
OCR / Document Parsing	131	147
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	147
Long-Document Summarization	137	161
Short-Form Summarization	123	122
Blog Post Writing	121	141

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