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Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs Kimi K3 vs Sonar Pro Search

Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 in and $0 out, Kimi K3 at $3.45 in and $17.25 out, and Sonar Pro Search at $3.45 in and $17.25 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 7 months ago

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M

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

3.1¢

for a client proposal

$3.45 in · $17.25 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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P

Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity

3.1¢

for a client proposal

$3.45 in · $17.25 out / 1M

200K context · released October 2025

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Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about $0.06 for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

  • Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
  • Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
  • Largest context: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Kimi K3
1.6¢
Sonar Pro Search
1.6¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Kimi K3
3.1¢
Sonar Pro Search
3.1¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Kimi K3
$0.60
Sonar Pro Search
$0.60

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Kimi K3
$0.14
Sonar Pro Search
$0.14

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Kimi K3
$0.91
Sonar Pro Search
needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output
free$3.10$6.210 tokens250k500k750k1000k
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Kimi K3
Sonar Pro Search

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Kimi K3
Sonar Pro Search
Input / 1M tokens
$0
$3.45
$3.45
Output / 1M tokens
$0
$17.25
$17.25
Cached input / 1M
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$0.345
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Web search
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2.1¢ / search

Specs

Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Kimi K3
Sonar Pro Search
Released
7 months ago
4 months ago
October 2025
Context window
1.05M
1.05M
200K
Max output
66K
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8K
Input
Text and Images
Text and Images
Text and Images
Output
Text and Audio
Text
Text
Reasoning
Answers directly
Shows its thinking
Shows its thinking
Knowledge cutoff
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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for this task

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Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

1.6¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

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Sonar Pro Search

Perplexity

1.6¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

All 3, same prompt and context: 3.1¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 161 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Clip Preview and Kimi K3 share the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Clip Preview is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about free.

If you want to watch the model think, Kimi K3 and Sonar Pro Search show reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — Lyria 3 Clip Preview, Kimi K3, or Sonar Pro Search?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Clip Preview at free; Kimi K3 at 3.1¢; Sonar Pro Search at 3.1¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview and Kimi K3 — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Lyria 3 Clip Preview, Kimi K3, and Sonar Pro Search side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about $0.06 for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about $0.06 for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.