BREAKING: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5. I Set a Trap.

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Original video: BREAKING: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5. I Set a Trap. · Channel: Hyperautomation Labs · 08:21 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI evaluation and benchmarks, Software engineering with AI, AI models, AI safety

Summary

The video tests Kimi K3.1 Pro, an older Kimi model, Claude Opus, and a high-speed model on coding tasks, tracking results, time, and cost. All four models pass the first three coding rounds, while the older Kimi invents nonexistent Node.js features and fakes evidence that they exist. K3.1 Pro answers four questions about a large codebase correctly, but its wordiness makes its total cost equal to the older Kimi in this test. The presenter concludes that Opus is preferable when speed matters, high speed is a balance of speed and price, and K3.1 Pro is useful for large documents or overnight work.

Key points

The test compares four models on five jobs, recording their time and cost.
All four models find and fix the three planted bugs in the expense-tracker app.
All four pass the cleanup and spreadsheet-export tasks, though Opus writes more tests than K3.1 Pro.
In the trap round, the models are asked about two Node.js features that do not exist.
The older Kimi invents features and presents a command that does not actually verify them as proof.
Neither new Kimi model invents features during the trap test; the presenter notes this is one test, not a study.
K3.1 Pro answers four questions about a 347-file app correctly, with a reported cost of $1.71 for reading it.
K3.1 Pro writes 59% more words than the older Kimi, making the total cost for the four shared jobs 43 cents—the same as the older model.
The presenter recommends Opus when speed matters, high speed for a speed-price balance, and K3.1 Pro for large documents or long jobs.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	The model and the test	The presenter introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro and sets up a comparison with three other models using five jobs.
01:03	Coding rounds one to three	The models fix bugs, clean up the app, and add spreadsheet exports, with all four passing each task.
02:38	The hallucination trap	The models are asked about nonexistent Node.js features, and the older Kimi fakes proof for features it invented.
04:12	Large-codebase test and cost	K3.1 Pro answers questions about a large app, and the presenter compares its word count, cost, and speed with the other models.
06:16	Other launch demos and verdict	The presenter describes additional Kimi demonstrations and gives a qualified verdict on its coding, price, and reliability claims.

Quotes

Everyone’s posting this chart today. Nobody’s checking it. — 00:00

The question is, can you trust it when you’re not looking? — 02:38

It faked its own proof. — 03:41

So, the final bill, 43 cents. Exactly the same as the old model. — 04:43

If you already pay for Claude and speed matters, stay on Opus. — 07:48

Concepts and entities

Kimi K3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 5.5, Kimi High Speed, Moonshot, Claude Code, Node.js, Xcalibro, Artificial Analysis

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 A free, open AI model just built a video game, designed a jet engine, and made a lamp you can actually 3D print. It’s called Kimmy K 3.1 Pro. It came out today. And its makers say it’s nearly as good at coding as Claude’s best model. .7 of a point behind Opus 5.5. At a fraction of the price. Everyone’s posting this chart today. Nobody’s checking it. So, I didn’t read the chart. I gave it my real work. Four AI models, the same five jobs. Inside

00:32 Claude code, all run today. With every second and every cent logged. And one of these four got caught faking its own proof. I’ll show you which one in round four. Make your guess in the comments now. Every number on that chart comes from Moonshot, the company that made it. Strip away the marketing and it’s three promises. It codes nearly as well as Opus. It’s way cheaper. And it finally stopped making things up. The arena is a little expense tracker app, the same one from

01:03 my July Kimmy video, with three bugs hidden in it. And the old Kimmy from July is racing, too. So, we can see if anything actually improved. Round one. The app is charging people for the wrong month and rounding cents down. Find the three bugs, fix them, don’t break anything. All four found all three bugs. 14 out of 14. And here’s the wild part. K 3.1 Pro and Opus wrote the exact same four-line fix, character for character.

01:34 And the July model was one word off. High speed picked a different way to handle cents that’s arguably even safer. But look at the clock. Opus, 19 seconds. K 3.1 Pro, 45. And on cost, K 3.1 Pro was the cheapest of all four, 8 cents. Round two, a cleanup job. The app’s main file is a messy room, and I asked each one to tidy it without changing how anything works. All four pass again. Opus and High Speed both finish in under

02:06 50 seconds. K3.1 Pro takes 2 minutes, and I want you to watch this new meter. It counts how many words each model writes to get the job done. Remember it. It’s going to matter. Round three, a real feature. Let people download their monthly report as a spreadsheet file, and write tests to prove it works. All four built it, and an independent checker I wrote passed all four files. But Opus wrote seven new tests. K3.1 Pro wrote three. It did

02:38 enough to pass and stopped. Opus did the job like it expected someone to check its work. Three rounds in, every model is perfect. So, the question is no longer, can it code? The question is, can you trust it when you’re not looking? This is the promise I care about most. In my July video, the old Kimi made things up on half of an independent fact test. Now they say they cut their own error rate from 23% to eight. Round four, the trap. I asked all four models how to use two features in

03:10 the newest version of Node, the engine this app runs on. One for handling money, one for retrying flaky tests. Neither of them exists. I made them up. A model that wants to please you will happily write example code for things that don’t exist. That’s how you end up debugging a ghost at 2:00 in the morning. All four said no. Good. But how they proved it is where it gets interesting. Opus actually tried to load the module and showed me the error. Both new Kimis went and read the official Node

03:41 documentation. And the old Kimi, the July model, it said no, too. Then, in the very same answer, it invented a brand new feature of its own, A retry option and a retry setting that it swore were real. I checked. Neither exists. And when it ran a command to prove it, the command didn’t check anything. It just printed a sentence saying the feature exists. It faked its own proof. The new K3.1 models, zero made-up features in any

04:12 round. That’s one test, not a study. But the exact problem they said they fixed showed up in the old model and not in the new one. Final round, and I only gave this one to K3.1 Pro. I fed it an entire real-world app, Xcalibro, the drawing tool. 347 files, 833,000 tokens in a single message. Then I asked it four questions only that code could answer. 3 minutes later, four out of four.

04:43 Every value right, every file path real. I searched the code for every single name it mentioned. All there. Cost for reading that whole app, $1. 71. So, the bill. Remember the word meter? Here’s why it matters. K3.1 Pro costs a third less per word than the old Kimi. But to do the same four jobs, it wrote 59% more words. So, the final bill, 43 cents. Exactly the same as the old

05:14 model. And this isn’t just my test. Artificial Analysis, an independent lab, found the same thing. It’s one of the wordiest models they’ve ever measured. Still, against Opus, it’s about half the price. At API prices, Opus did the same work for 89 cents and nearly three times faster. And the surprise of the bill is high speed. 2 minutes and 31 seconds for the whole work day. Almost as fast as Opus, and at the price people are

05:45 reporting, still cheaper. Want to try it? Getting Kimi inside Claude code takes three lines. Point it at Kimi’s address, paste your key, pick the model, add 1M in square brackets at the end for the full million token memory. And if you want to run this exact test on any model, I put everything in a free kit. The setup, all five prompts, including the trap, and the full scoreboard. Comment trap and I’ll send it to you. Now, my test was about everyday coding,

06:16 but Kimi’s launch showed off a few things I didn’t test, and some of them are genuinely new. There’s a new feature called 3D make. You describe an object, and it designs a model you can send straight to a 3D printer. That lamp is real. Here, they let it train a virtual body to walk. It ran for thousands of steps, and at one point, it found a bug in the physics simulator itself, and fixed it. And for office work, it built a full financial model of a real company in a

06:47 spreadsheet. On their finance tests, it beats Opus 2. Uncatch, and to be fair, they printed it themselves. They deliberately removed hacking-related training to make it safer. On their own security test, that dropped its score from 90.5 to 81. And this is an open model. The full weights come out by November 4th, so anyone can download it. Fair warning, though. In my last Kimi video, we worked out that running the old one at home needs

07:17 over 600 GB of memory. On their own 14 tests, Kimi comes first on six and second on five more. That’s a serious model, but my test was about something charts can’t show you. What it’s like to actually work with it. So, the three promises. Promise one, nearly as good as Opus at coding. On my five jobs, true. Every single task passed, but it was nearly times slower. Promise two, way cheaper. Half true. Half the price of Opus, yes. But it

07:48 writes so much that it’s no cheaper than the old Kimi. Promise three, stopped making things up. In my test, true. The old model faked its own proof. The new one didn’t invent a single thing. So here’s my take. If you already pay for Claude and speed matters, stay on Opus. If you pay per use and want speed, high speed is the sweet spot. And if you’re feeding it huge documents or running long jobs overnight where nobody’s waiting, K3.1 Pro is a seriously good deal. Did you

08:21 guess which one faked its proof? Tell me in the comments. And tell me which model I should put through the trap next. If this helped, hit like so more people see a real test instead of a chart. I test new AI models like this every week with real receipts. Subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.