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Kimi K3

Last verified: July 17, 2026

$3.00/1M input · $15.00/1M output · 1.0M context · Moonshot

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Pricing Details

Moonshot2.8T param MoE (16 of 896 experts active), native vision, always reasons. Cached input: $0.30/1M. Full 1M context billed flat with no length tiering. Max output defaults to 131,072 and can be raised to the full 1,048,576. Rate card is 3.16x input and 3.75x output over K2.6. AA Intelligence Index 57, rank #4 (Jul 17, 2026), at $0.94/task vs Opus 4.8's $1.80; #1 on Arena Frontend Code (1679). Very verbose: 130M tokens across AA's suite vs 63M average, though ~21% fewer output tokens than K2.6. AA measured hallucination rising to 51% from K2.6's 39%. Moonshot committed to open weights by 2026-07-27. API ID: kimi-k3.
Input / 1M tokens
$3
Output / 1M tokens
$15
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
131K
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Launched at current price on 2026-07-16. No price changes recorded.

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For two years the story out of China was that prices only fall. Moonshot just tripled its own rate card with Kimi K3, and the uncomfortable part is that the model is good enough to charge it.
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