Model Details
Owner
Moonshot AI
Released
Jul 2026
Status
Active
Context Length
1,048,576
Max Output
NA
Provider
Perplexity
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
Your GPT-5 Cost Estimate
💰 Total Cost
USD 3.00
for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens
📥 Input (1000 × $3.000000)
USD 1.5000
📤 Output (1000 × $15.000000)
USD 1.5000
Cost Breakdown
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📤 Output 50%
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