The $10 Output Price Is Not the Meter That Runs: Inside Kimi K3.1 Pro’s $2.11 Task

Ask what Kimi K3.1 Pro costs and you get $2.00 per million in, $10.00 out, $0.20 cached. Ask what a *task* costs and the answer is $2.11, of which $1.06 is cached input, $0.55 is output, $0.46 is cache writes…



