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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

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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 navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback. Its architecture uses KDA and Attention Residuals for computational efficiency.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.1824 / $11.01per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Jul 16, 2026
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Pricing

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Performance

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Uptime

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Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) Coding Index76.2
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) Agentic Index50.0
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) GPQA Diamond93.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) HLE46.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) AA-LCR88.7%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) τ-Bench Banking46.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) GDPval-AA52.1%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) CritPt23.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) SciCode59.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.012.6%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 2.185.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) Intelligence Index17.4
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) Coding Index72.0
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) Agentic Index29.3
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) GPQA Diamond84.2%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) HLE25.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) AA-LCR79.3%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) τ-Bench Banking41.6%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) GDPval-AA31.8%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) CritPt3.1%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) SciCode52.7%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) Terminal-Bench 4.012.6%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) Terminal-Bench 2.182.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy42.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate23.4%
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Agenticgamedev Elo1202
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo1255
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Blender3d Elo1156
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Codetovideo Elo1269
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo1295
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Godotgamedev Elo1204
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo1152
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo1256
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Pdf Elo1278
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo1220
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo1128
Design ArenaKimi K3 Agents Arena Webapps Elo1280
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena 3D Elo1367
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena Code Categories Elo1352
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1351
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena Game Development Elo1353
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena SVG Elo1298
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena UI Component Elo1339
Design ArenaKimi K3 Models Arena Website Elo1337
Vals AIKimi K3 Access to Justice Benchmark68.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 BioMysteryBench72.6%
Vals AIKimi K3 Code Migration v1.128.6%
Vals AIKimi K3 CorpFin v271.6%
Vals AIKimi K3 CyberBench v1.175.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 CyberOffense25.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 EMB v1.171.3%
Vals AIKimi K3 Finance Agent v2.160.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals Finance Index58.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 GPQA Diamond92.9%
Vals AIKimi K3 HLAB-Vals-1.112.9%
Vals AIKimi K3 Immigration68.3%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals Inference Provider Index64.9%
Vals AIKimi K3 IOI48.9%
Vals AIKimi K3 LiveCodeBench87.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 LegalBench86.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals Legal Index71.7%
Vals AIKimi K3 Legal Research Bench46.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 MedCode49.4%
Vals AIKimi K3 MedScribe88.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 MMLU Pro88.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 MMMU Pro88.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 MortgageTax66.3%
Vals AIKimi K3 ProgramBench2.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 ProofBench v1.187.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 Public Benefits Bench v1.168.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals RSI Index20.9%
Vals AIKimi K3 SAGE86.8%
Vals AIKimi K3 SWE-bench93.4%
Vals AIKimi K3 SWE-bench Multimodal44.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 Tax Agent Bench33.4%
Vals AIKimi K3 TaxEval v275.7%
Vals AIKimi K3 Terminal-Bench 4.017.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 Terminal-Bench-Science1.4%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals Index53.0%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vals Multimodal Index73.4%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vibe Code Bench 1-10018.2%
Vals AIKimi K3 Vibe Code Bench v1.185.0%

Apps

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Activity

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MoonshotAI: Kimi versions

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Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 on OpenRouter.

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    72 tok/s99.95% uptime
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    59 tok/s99.93% uptime
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    37 tok/s99.97% uptime
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Frequently asked questions

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 navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback. Its architecture uses KDA and Attention Residuals for computational efficiency.

The Kimi K3 documentation on OpenRouter includes the Open-Weight vs Closed-Weight Models: What's the Difference? blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.

Kimi K3 costs $0.1824/M input tokens and $11.01/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.18/M tokens.

Kimi K3 has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 1,048,576 completion tokens.

Yes. Kimi K3 accepts tools for function calling on 18 of the 19 providers serving it, and requests that send tools are routed to those providers. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Kimi K3 accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.

Kimi K3 is served by 19 providers on OpenRouter: Wafer, Relace, inference.net, Sail Research, Pareto Alpha, Makora, Chutes, io.net and 11 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Kimi K3 was released on July 16, 2026.

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