Kimi K3

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

Input price: $2.827–$4.50
Output price: $14.133–$22.50

Context: 1M
Max output: 1M

Capability: 159 (#22 of 79)
Human preference: 1474
30-day uptime: —

Released: 2026-07-17

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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.

AutoInput$2.827–$4.50Output$14.133–$22.50Cache read$0.283–$0.45Context1MMax output1MWe send each request to the best-priced healthy provider. You pay that provider’s price.Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio Intl)CheapestInput$2.827Output$14.133Cache read$0.283Global (HK/DE/JP)No trainingTencent Cloud TokenHubInput$2.92Output$14.60Cache read$0.292ChinaNo trainingFireworks AIInput$3.00Output$15.00Cache read$0.30Context1MMax output131KUnited StatesNo trainingNo retentionMoonshot AI (Kimi)Input$3.212Output$16.06Cache read$0.3212ChinaNo trainingTogether AIInput$3.30Output$16.50Cache read$0.33United StatesNo trainingNo retentionAmazon BedrockInput$3.63Output$18.15Cache read$0.363Context1MUnited StatesNo trainingNo retentionFireworks AIInput$4.50Output$22.50Cache read$0.45Context1MMax output131KUnited StatesNo trainingNo retention

Pricing

Prices vary by provider. Showing Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio Intl), the lowest. Pick a provider above to see its prices.

Input: $2.827; per 1M tokens
Output: $14.133; per 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.283; per 1M tokens

Try it

Runs on your balance and is billed like any API request.

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"
      }
    ]
  }'

import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["OHMYGPT_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.OHMYGPT_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1",
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "moonshot/kimi-k3",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

The answer streams in here.

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-10), 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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Capability: 159
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Output: $14.133–$22.50

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Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-09): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text