The older Kimi K models (2.5 and 2.6) weren't bad for the time, but all of their models have had problems with overthinking. This also makes them significantly more expensive in practice than their pricing suggests, since they produce way more output (reasoning) tokens than most other models. Anecdotally, I've also had problems with all the pre-K3 models thinking themselves in circles trying to solve very simple problems that other models didn't struggle with. (I haven't played with K3 much because it's just too expensive.)

Same for me, however! Check the price-per-task table. They claim to be cheaper than GLM 5.3.

Edit: or they lie... https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro