Claude Haiku 5.5 Max vs Kimi K3.1 Pro: which is cheaper?

Kimi K3.1 Pro leads the intelligence index 46.5 to 36.5. Price per token, response speed and when to pick each.

Metric	Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)	Kimi K3.1 Pro
Intelligence Index	36.5	46.5
Input price (per 1M tokens)	$0.10	$2.00
Output price (per 1M tokens)	$0.50	$10.00
Output speed (tokens/s)	233	27
Time to first token	4.6 min	3.0s
Release date	2026-10-07	2026-10-23

Metric

Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)

Kimi K3.1 Pro

Intelligence Index

36.5

46.5

Input price (per 1M tokens)

$0.10

$2.00

Output price (per 1M tokens)

$0.50

$10.00

Output speed (tokens/s)

233

Time to first token

4.6 min

3.0s

Release date

2026-10-07

2026-10-23

Here is how Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max), built by Anthropic, lines up against Kimi K3.1 Pro from Kimi. The sharpest difference is price: Claude Haiku 5.5 Max costs $0.50 per million output tokens, against $10.00 for Kimi K3.1 Pro. Everything below is read from the benchmark, price and speed data in Franklin AI's catalogue; nothing here comes from a hands-on test.

Running costs

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max lists $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Kimi K3.1 Pro lists $2.00 and $10.00. For output tokens, Kimi K3.1 Pro is 20 times the price of Claude Haiku 5.5 Max.

A reference job of 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens costs $0.20 with Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and $4.00 with Kimi K3.1 Pro, so Claude Haiku 5.5 Max saves $3.80. For a month of coding-assistant traffic at 30 million input and 3 million output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max would come in 95% lower: $4.50 for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max against $90.00 for Kimi K3.1 Pro. Blended at three input tokens per output token, the effective rates are $0.20 for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and $4.00 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.

Release timing

Kimi K3.1 Pro arrived on October 23, 2026, 16 days after Claude Haiku 5.5 Max (October 7, 2026). They are effectively contemporaries.

Reasoning and overall scores

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max records 36.5 on the intelligence index and Kimi K3.1 Pro records 46.5. This is a substantial lead, not a near miss.

Among 109 active scored models, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max sits 37th and Kimi K3.1 Pro 23rd.

For coding or maths work specifically, the catalogue has no dedicated index on either side yet.

Cost per point of intelligence

Per point of intelligence index, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max costs $0.0055 of blended price per million tokens and Kimi K3.1 Pro $0.086. Kimi K3.1 Pro costs 16 times as much per point, which is the price of its lead.

Waiting time

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max generates about 233 tokens per second and Kimi K3.1 Pro about 27 tokens per second. Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is ahead by 763% on throughput. Time to first token is 4.6 minutes for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and 3.0 seconds for Kimi K3.1 Pro. The faster writer, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max, gives away too much at the start to win on time: counting the first-token wait, Kimi K3.1 Pro finishes first for any reply shorter than about 8,400 tokens. A first-token wait of that length suits background work better than live conversation.

For a 400-token response, first token plus generation comes to roughly 4.7 minutes on Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and 18 seconds on Kimi K3.1 Pro.

FAQ

Is Kimi K3.1 Pro better than Claude Haiku 5.5 Max?

It depends on what you need: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores higher on the intelligence index, 46.5 to 36.5; Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is 95% cheaper on blended price; Claude Haiku 5.5 Max streams output 8.6 times as fast; and Kimi K3.1 Pro reaches its first token sooner.

Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and Kimi K3.1 Pro?

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is made by Anthropic and Kimi K3.1 Pro by Kimi. Claude Haiku 5.5 Max was released on October 7, 2026 and Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, 2026.

When were Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and Kimi K3.1 Pro released?

Kimi K3.1 Pro is newer. It was released on October 23, 2026, 16 days after Claude Haiku 5.5 Max (October 7, 2026).

Is Kimi K3.1 Pro cheaper than Claude Haiku 5.5 Max?

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is cheaper on a blended basis. Claude Haiku 5.5 Max lists $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Kimi K3.1 Pro lists $2.00 and $10.00. For 1 million input and 200,000 output tokens that is $0.20 against $4.00.

Was this comparison tested by hand?

The figures are the recorded benchmark, price and speed data in Franklin AI's model catalogue. This page is written from that data automatically; neither model was tested by hand for it.

Final whistle

Short answer: Kimi K3.1 Pro is the stronger all-round pick on this data, while Claude Haiku 5.5 Max makes sense in narrower cases. Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you need the higher overall score (46.5 against 36.5) and users are waiting on the first word. Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 Max if cost matters ($0.50 against $10.00 per million output tokens) and you generate very long outputs, beyond about 8,400 tokens.

Where the numbers come from

The scores, speed and prices in this comparison come from independent third-party model evaluations that Franklin AI syncs each day, and the article was written from a snapshot of them. For the latest results, open the Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) and Kimi K3.1 Pro pages. The AI Benchmark methodology explains how that data is collected and shown.