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Kimi K3

CTX1.05M

94Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$3/M

Output$15/M

Multimodal Kimi model with 1M context and toggleable max-effort thinking for long-horizon agent work

Open weightsKimi K3 license952/1044

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Kimi K3

Multimodal Kimi model with 1M context and toggleable max-effort thinking for long-horizon agent work

kimi-k3

Type: Text
Quality: 94 · Top 6% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 1,048,576 tokens
Input price: $3.00 / 1M tokens
Output price: $15.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.30 / 1M tokens
Cache write: $3.00 / 1M tokens
Parameters: 2.8T (2,779,931,837,184)
Downloads: 1M in the last 30 days
Likes: 12K
Access to weights: Open download
Released: Jul 16, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: —
Takes in: Text, Image, Video
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Open weights
License: Kimi K3 license
Rarity: Rare
Set number: 952/1044

Open Moonshot docs Weights on Hugging Face Quality 94 Where to run it 86 Evolution 5/5 Race it 56 tok/s Meet its creature Battle GPT-5.4

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: platform.moonshot.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Kimi K3, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 6% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #17.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#17 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.157.4 index
LMArena Text#25 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,475 rating
Listed as Kimi K3 (Max)
LMArena Text · Coding#17 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,507 rating
Listed as Kimi K3 (Max)
LMArena Text · Math#19 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,494 rating
Listed as Kimi K3 (Max)
LMArena Text · Creative writing#28 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,456 rating
Listed as Kimi K3 (Max)
LMArena WebDev#15 of 145
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,655 rating
Listed as Kimi K3 (Max)

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

81 providers sell Kimi K3 through an API, and 5 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestCrofAI$2.00 in · $8.00 out
Free to try9 providersKenari, Kimi For Coding (kimi.ai), Kimi For Coding (kimi.com), …
From the labMoonshot AI$3.00 in · $15.00 out
Fastest on Hugging FaceBaseten56 tokens/s

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`kimi-k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
Kimi For Coding (kimi.ai)Free`k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
Kimi For Coding (kimi.com)Free`k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
NvidiaFree`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
SCNet Token PlanFree`Kimi-K3`	Free	Free	1.05M
SenseNova (China)Free`kimi-k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
Umans AI Coding PlanFree`umans-kimi-k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
Volcengine Ark Coding PlanFree`kimi-k3`	Free	Free	1.05M
ZenMuxFree`moonshotai/kimi-k3-free`	Free	Free	1.05M
CrofAICheapest paid`kimi-k3`	$2.00	$8.00	1M

Show 71 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
NanoGPT`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$1.65	$8.25	1.05M
engy`kimi-k3`	$1.95	$9.75	1.11M
ainetcafe`Kimi-K3`	$2.10	$10.50	262K
Boundless`kimi-k3`	$2.30	$11.40	1.05M
OpenRouter`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$0.24	$11.94	1.05M
IteraCompute`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$2.39	$11.99	1.05M
Vancine`kimi-k3`	$2.40	$12.00	1.05M
ai&`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$12.50	1.05M
SiliconFlow`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$2.70	$13.50	1.05M
Wallaby`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$2.70	$13.50	1.05M
Merge Gateway`moonshot/kimi-k3`	$2.90	$14.00	1.05M
Alibaba (China)`kimi-k3`	$2.83	$14.13	1.05M
Deep Infra`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$2.85	$14.25	1.05M
Cortecs`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
302.AI`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Abacus`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
AIHubMix`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Alibaba`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Amazon Bedrock`global.moonshotai.kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Arcee`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Baseten`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Berget.AI`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	328K
ClinePass`cline-pass/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Cloudflare AI Gateway`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
CommandCode`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1M
CrossModel`moonshot/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
DigitalOcean`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Eden AI`moonshot/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
EmpirioLabs AI`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1M
Fireworks AI`accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
GitHub Copilot`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Impossibl`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Jalapeno Cloud`Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Kilo Gateway`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
LLM Gateway`runpod/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Moark`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Modal`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Moonshot AIOfficial`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Moonshot AI (China)`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Nebius Token Factory`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Neon`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Neuralwatt`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Novita AI`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Ofox`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Ollama Cloud`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
OpenCode`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
OpenCode Go`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Opper`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Perplexity Agent`moonshot-ai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Pioneer`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1M
Requesty`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Standard Compute`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Synthetic`hf:moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	524K
Tempr Gateway`moonshot/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
TensorX`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Together AI`moonshotai/Kimi-K3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
TokenGo`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Umans AI`umans-kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M
Vercel AI Gateway`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1M
Vivgrid`kimi-k3`	$3.00	$15.00	1M
Melious`kimi-k3`	$3.19	$15.94	1M
Charm Hyper`kimi-k3`	$3.27	$16.33	1.05M
NEAR AI Cloud`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.30	$16.50	1.05M
OrcaRouter`kimi/kimi-k3`	$3.30	$16.50	1.05M
Prime Inference`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	$3.45	$17.25	1.05M
Venice AI`kimi-k3`	$3.75	$18.75	1M
GreenPT`kimi-k3`	$3.76	$18.81	1.05M
AI/ML API`moonshot/kimi-k3`	$3.90	$19.50	1.05M
Tinfoil`kimi-k3`	$4.00	$20.00	262K
Inco`kimi-k3:fast`	$6.00	$30.00	1.05M

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Host	Input	Output	Context	Speed	First token
DeepInfraTools	$2.85	$14.25	1.05M	28 tok/s	0.6s
BasetenFastestTools	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M	56 tok/s	0.5s
FireworksTools	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M	36 tok/s	3.6s
Together AITools	$3.00	$15.00	1.05M	33 tok/s	0.5s
Featherless	—	—	—	—	—

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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