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Kimi K3
otherReleased Jul 15, 2026
Moonshot AI's flagship Kimi model for frontier intelligence, agentic coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning. Kimi K3 supports a 1-million-token context window for long-running software engineering and research workflows.
ChatText completionFunction callingVisionCode generationReasoningtext · image · video · code
Available from 2 providers
Cheapest
Moonshot AI
$3.00 / $15.00
Moonshot AI, OpenRouter
Providers (2)
Sorted by total cost (input + output per 1M tokens). Select a row to view provider details.
| Provider | Pricing (per 1M) | Rate limits | Regions | Health | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In: $3.00Out: $15.00 | 200 RPM / 500K TPM | us-east-1global | Healthy | 0ms |
| In: $3.00Out: $15.00 | 200 RPM / 300K TPM | us-east-1 | Healthy | 0ms |
Quick start
Use this model via Moonshot AI with an OpenAI-compatible SDK.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.moonshot.com/v1",
apiKey: process.env.MOONSHOT_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "kimi-k3",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }
],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);Using Moonshot AI API · OpenAI-compatible SDK