Model Details
Released
Jul 16, 2026
Context Length
1,048,576
Where is kimi-k3 a perfect fit?
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's flagship open-weight frontier Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, designed for long-horizon coding, autonomous agents, multimodal reasoning, and enterprise knowledge work. It combines a 1M-token context window with frontier-level performance while remaining openly deployable.
- Repository-scale software engineering and codebase understanding
- Autonomous AI agents executing long-running workflows
- Complex coding, debugging, and software architecture design
- Long-document, contract, and knowledge-base analysis
- Enterprise research, technical writing, and report generation
- Function calling and tool-driven automation
- Vision-enabled reasoning over images and documents
- Self-hosted deployments requiring open weights with frontier-class capabilities
- Repository-scale software engineering and codebase understanding
- Autonomous AI agents executing long-running workflows
- Complex coding, debugging, and software architecture design
- Long-document, contract, and knowledge-base analysis
- Enterprise research, technical writing, and report generation
- Function calling and tool-driven automation
- Vision-enabled reasoning over images and documents
- Self-hosted deployments requiring open weights with frontier-class capabilities
Quick Model Estimate
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FAQs about kimi-k3
How much does kimi-k3 cost per 1M tokens?
kimi-k3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens, and $15.00 per million output tokens.
What does a typical workload cost with kimi-k3?
1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $13.50 with kimi-k3 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.
Where can I use kimi-k3?
kimi-k3 is available through Perplexity, from $3.00 per million input tokens.
What is kimi-k3's context window?
kimi-k3 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens.