MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

moonshotai/kimi-k3

Kimi K3 is MoonshotAI's open-weight flagship and the strongest model in its open-weight class, ranking #9 of 235 on the TryAii Score. It's strongest on head-to-head chat (#6 on Chatbot Arena Elo (Code)). API pricing starts at $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, though similar scores now sell for about $8 per million output tokens, with 15 independent hosts serving it. It's reasonably quick at roughly 28-45 tokens/sec.

Prompt $/1M

$3.000

Completion $/1M

$15.000

Context

1,048,576 tok

Best provider

92 tok/s · Modal

Specs

Model id: moonshotai/kimi-k3
Display name: MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Modality: text+image+video->text
Tokenizer: Other
Instruct type: —
Context length: 1,048,576
Max completion: 943,718
Prompt $/1M: $3.000
Completion $/1M: $15.000
Free tier: no

Capabilities

Function callingno
JSON modeno
System promptno
Visionyes
Moderatedno

Benchmark scores

Each axis is one benchmark, normalized to the best model in the field.

No benchmark data for this model.

Speed by provider

Provider	tok/s	TTFT	Total latency
Modalfastest	92	727 ms	1,084 ms
Fireworks	79	1,146 ms	1,589 ms
Parasail	62	794 ms	1,093 ms
Together	61	1,070 ms	1,259 ms
Phala	45	2,206 ms	2,682 ms
Wafer	42	3,284 ms	3,826 ms
BaseTen	42	2,212 ms	4,195 ms
Sail Research	41	1,663 ms	2,416 ms
Artificial Analysis	38	3,349 ms	—
DigitalOcean	31	1,303 ms	1,873 ms
DeepInfra	29	1,100 ms	1,376 ms
Moonshot AI	28	4,103 ms	4,808 ms
Alibaba	28	1,954 ms	2,960 ms
Makora	21	2,269 ms	4,162 ms
Chutes	16	1,659 ms	1,871 ms
Morph	10	3,286 ms	4,382 ms
Nebius	7	32,051 ms	49,002 ms
moonshotaifastest	—	—	—