Kimi K3

Moonshot AI's flagship native multimodal model for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning.

Input price
$2.92–$4.50
Output price
$14.60–$22.50
Context
1M
Max output
1M
Modalities
InputTextImageVideoOutputText
158 (#18 of 89)
1476
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Released
2026-07-17
Knowledge cutoff
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Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

Pricing

Prices vary by provider. Showing Tencent Cloud TokenHub, the lowest. Pick a provider above to see its prices.

Input
$2.92
per 1M tokens
Output
$14.60
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.292
per 1M tokens
Cache write (5 min)
$2.92
per 1M tokens
Cache write (1 hour)
$5.84
per 1M tokens

Make a request

Set your provider preferences, then copy the request. It reads your API key from OHMYGPT_API_KEY.

Later turns reuse the provider’s prompt cache, which can lower cost and latency.

Providers
curl https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OHMYGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshot/kimi-k3",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello"
      }
    ]
  }'

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Price: our current input price per 1M tokens in USD, lowest across channels. Dated snapshots and resold copies of the same model are merged into one point; free models are not shown.

Shaded area: capability above and price below the median of all models. Pareto frontier: no other model is both cheaper and more capable.

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Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-10-28): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text