# Together AI — Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost and Coding

- Company: Together AI (together.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Inference platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Kimi K3, Claude Fable 5
- Context window: Full 1M context
- Pricing: Kimi K3: $4.65 per rollout; Claude Fable 5: $13.41 per rollout
- Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/kimi-k3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-and-coding
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2331-kimi-k3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-and-coding

The post compares Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5 on the DeepSWE benchmark, finding that Kimi K3 matches Claude Fable 5 on quality at a third of the cost per solved task, with Kimi K3 being an open-weight model that gives teams full control over deployment.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.together.ai/blog/kimi-k3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-and-coding:

> Kimi K3 matches Claude Fable 5 on quality, costs a third as much per solved task, and as an open model gives teams full control over their deployment.

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