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Kimi K3

Moonshot
Compare Kimi K3Count tokens for Kimi K3
Context
1M
Max output
n/a
Serving providers
1
Cheapest input
$3.00 /1M
Prices are on-demand list rates. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Speed & latency
Output speed
62 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
8.97s
latency
Headline indices
Intelligence Index
57.1
of 100
Coding Index
76.2
of 100
Agentic Index
50.1
of 100
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
APEX Agents41%default—
CritPt23%default—
EvalComputeProxy853190.9default—
GDPval1683.7default—
GPQA Diamond94%default—
Humanity's Last Exam44%default—
IT-Bench SRE48%default—
Long-Context Reasoning75%default—
MMMU-Pro81%default—
Omniscience18.4default—
SciCode59%default—
TerminalBench v2.185%default—
τ-bench Banking33%default—

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand
Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
OpenRouterCheapest$3.00$15.001
EndpointStd inStd outCached inBatch in / outModel ID
StandardCheapest$3.00$15.00$0.30—moonshotai/kimi-k3

Price history

input + output $/1M since we started tracking
Input Output

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Cost calculator

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$1,800
estimated / month

Model IDs

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moonshotai/kimi-k3

Frequently asked questions

Kimi K3 pricing, context and availability

How much does Kimi K3 cost?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens at its cheapest provider via OpenRouter.

What is the context window of Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 accepts up to 1M tokens of context.

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