Kimi K3
Provider：Moonshot AI
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：943.7K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-07-16
Token pricing
- Input price：$3.00 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$15.00 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.300 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$6.00 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Video
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.120/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.090/call）
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- Video input support: fit for video understanding, frame QA, content moderation.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Kimi K3? Input price $3.00 / 1M tokens, output price $15.00 / 1M tokens, blended about $6.00 / 1M tokens. Refer to Moonshot AI’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Kimi K3 support? Context window is 1M, max output about 943.7K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Kimi K3 best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Kimi K3 fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Kimi K3 support? Supports Text, Image, Video modality.
- Is Kimi K3 a free model? Kimi K3 is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Kimi K3? Kimi K3 is offered by Moonshot AI.
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