Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window — the world's first open 3T-class model.

Specs

Model

Family
Kimi
Variant
K3
Weights
Open
License
Kimi K3

Limits

Context
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens

Modalities

Input
Text Image Video
Output
Text

Pricing

Input
$3 / 1M
Output
$15 / 1M
Cache read
$0.3 / 1M

Capabilities

Reasoning
Yes
Reasoning control
On / off, Effort levels
Tool calling
Yes
Attachments
Yes

Dates

Released
16 Jul 2026
Kimi

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.

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