MoonshotAIReleased on Jul 16, 2026Kimi K3: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Kimi K3 is a language model from MoonshotAI, released in July 2026, with multimodal input.
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's flagship open Mixture-of-Experts model for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. It has 2.8 trillion total parameters, activates 16 of 896 experts, and combines Kimi Delta Attention, Attention
Kimi K3 pricing
Providers
Kimi K3 starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via Moonshot AI.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Max Input | Max Output | Latency p95 s | Throughput P95 | Quant | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Moonshot AI | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M | 1.0M | 0.00 | — | — |
Kimi K3 API
Run a request to see the response
Use it in your code
Billed at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="kimi-k3",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Kimi K3 latency
7-day operational metrics from live API traffic.
Performance Metrics
7-day operational metrics from live API traffic
Kimi K3 examples
Recent arena outputs from Kimi K3, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Kimi K3 license
Kimi K3 has 2.8T parameters.
- Parameters
- 2.8T
Kimi K3 vs other models
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FAQ
Common questions about Kimi K3.