Analysis Summary
Kwaipilot's KAT-Coder-Pro V1 is a coding-focused text model with a 256K context window, tool use, and function calling. Its measured coding and task-execution results are strong relative to its overall intelligence index, pointing to a specialist profile rather than an all-purpose flagship. The long context can help with large codebases and extended technical inputs.
For business teams, it is a candidate for code generation, debugging, repository analysis, and tool-assisted engineering tasks. Strong coding measures do not guarantee flawless production changes, so use tests, review, and permissions appropriate to the risk of each action. Its instruction-following results are useful but do not establish editorial quality for client-facing content.
The listed pricing is moderate for a coding specialist. Evaluate it on the team's actual repositories and agent tasks, and adopt where it produces reliable gains over a general-purpose alternative.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
KAT-Coder-Pro V1 pairs strong coding and tool-use results with a 256K context window and function calling, making it a focused software engineering and agent-workflow candidate.
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DFO Verdict
KAT-Coder-Pro V1 pairs strong coding and tool-use results with a 256K context window and function calling, making it a focused software engineering and agent-workflow candidate.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 18, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 13, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.
Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.
How Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 compares
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 ranks #143 of 439 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 256K-token context window is larger than 59% of the models we list. At $0.21 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 49% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.21 | $0.000207 |
| Output | $0.83 | $0.000828 |
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Talk to our teamAbout Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1
KAT-Coder-Pro V1 is KwaiKAT's most advanced agentic coding model in the KAT-Coder series. Designed specifically for agentic coding tasks, it excels in real-world software engineering scenarios, achieving 73.4% solve rate on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark. The model has been optimized for tool-use capability, multi-turn interaction, instruction following, generalization, and comprehensive capabilities through a multi-stage training process, including mid-training, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), and scalable agentic RL.
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Frequently asked questions about Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1
How much does Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 cost?
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 costs $0.21 per million input tokens and $0.83 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1?
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 has a context window of 256,000 tokens (256K).
What can Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 do?
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1?
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1 is developed by Kwaipilot and was released on November 10, 2025.
Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis, pricing from the OpenRouter API, and verdicts from our own testing.
Last updated: October 18, 2026 8:38 pm