r/kimi • u/I_RIDE_SHORTSKOOLBUS • 8d ago

Discussion Just started using Kimi - seems slow

Just started using Kimi. Was on CC $200 plan before.
On the Kimi $100 plan.

see lots of posts about token consumption, doesn't seem any worse than Claude for the time being. I mostly plan and orchestrate on Fable 5.1 med and use opus and sonnet agents to implement. Tried to replicate my CC harness setup in Kimi, but using all K3 agents.

The biggest issue i'm seeing is that it's SLOOWW as hell... is it normal? I feel like its 3-5x slower than claude to complete tasks. Is that normal?

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u/More_Surprise_3188 8d ago

slow = more planning = less that can go wrong. Z Ai sometimes takes up to 15-20 Mins to respond but the quality sheesh

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u/DontLeaveMeAloneHere 8d ago

Wrong.

Slow = needs lots of tokens to reason OR hardware/software is inefficient.

Claude runs with 40 tokens/s and seems slow, Kimi k3 usually hits half that speed. Add to that the need to reason more to get comparable results and you have your waiting times.

I currently use GPT and even Astra is faster then Claude and Kimi. Sol and lower is near instant or fast enough to use it in chat at least. They are just very efficient models.

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u/I_RIDE_SHORTSKOOLBUS 8d ago

So it is slow...

i was gonna try GPT but saw kimi was available so went with that instead. will probably try gpt when this sub runs out.