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Kimi K3

by Moonshot

Current 🔥 New · 0d flagship Open weights mid tier

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Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input

$3.00

per million tokens

Output

$15.00

per million tokens

Cached input	$0.300/Mtok (10% of input — prompt caching)
Blended avg cost*	$9.00/Mtok

Overview

Moonshot's flagship 2.8T-parameter open-weight (MoE) multimodal reasoning model with a 1M-token context, built for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows. OpenAI-compatible API. $3.00/$15.00 per 1M tokens; cached $0.30.

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Capabilities

Input 2/5

Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video PDF

Output 1/5

Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding

Features 5/9

Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning ✓ Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Specifications

Provider	Moonshot
Context window	1M tokens
Modality	text, image
Parameters	Proprietary
Open source	Yes — open weights available
Released	Jul 16, 2026
Status	Current
Last updated	Jul 16, 2026
Tags	open-weights flagship caching multimodal reasoning

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Last updated: Jul 16, 2026 · price links to the official provider pricing page (source above)

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