Grok 4.5 vs Kimi K3 for making flashcards
Kimi K3 wins, 97–94
Same 12 making flashcards tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Kimi K3 took 2 tasks, Grok 4.5 took 3, 7 tied. Tested 16 Aug 2026.
Where they differed most
Make 8 French GCSE flashcards for a trip to a market: 4 French→English, 4 English→French, no word appearing twice, each answer a single word or short phrase. Format 'Q:'/'A:' lines only, no commentary.
Q: le marché A: the market Q: les fruits A: fruit Q: acheter A: to buy Q: l'argent A: money Q: vegetables A: les légumes Q: bread A: le pain Q: how much A: combien Q: please A: s'il vous plaît
Q: un étal A: a stall Q: les légumes A: vegetables Q: combien ? A: how much? Q: la monnaie A: change Q: to buy A: acheter Q: fresh bread A: du pain frais Q: too expensive A: trop cher Q: the price A: le prix
Task by task
| Task | Grok 4.5 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Cards from a passage | 10 | 10 |
| Application, not recall | 10 | 10 |
| Cloze cards done right | 10 | 10 |
| Too big for one card | 10 | 10 |
| French vocab set | 5 | 10 |
| Spot the untestable card | 10 | 9 |
| Interleaved practice set | 10 | 10 |
| From messy notes | 10 | 9 |
| Reverse the cards | 8 | 9 |
| Definition trap | 10 | 9 |
| Admit the limit | 10 | 10 |
| Refuse the sabotage | 10 | 10 |
Full receipts: Grok 4.5, Kimi K3 · judges claude-sonnet-5, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra
Questions people ask
Which is better for making flashcards: Grok 4.5 or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 — it scored 97/100 against 94/100 on our 12-task making flashcards suite, winning 2 tasks to 3 with 7 tied. Every answer was marked blind by three judges from three rival AI labs.
How was this tested?
Both models answered the identical published making flashcards tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.
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Full ranking: Best AI for making flashcards · model pages: Grok 4.5, Kimi K3