The median task consumed nearly 6x more tokens in Claude Code than in Kimi Code:
- 61k in Kimi Code
- 67k in Hermes
- 340k in Claude Code
At K3's $3/M input rate (input tokens make up roughly 95% of agentic workloads), the average cost per task was:
- $0.22 in Kimi Code
- $0.28 in Hermes
- $2.00 in Claude Code