Kimi K3
Open Frontier Intelligence
A Kimi-branded open-weight mixture-of-experts AI model release from Moonshot AI, described in the supplied discovery context as being used for agentic and coding-oriented evaluation and inference.
Pricing
$0.30 per million cached input tokens; $3.00 per million uncached input tokens; $15.00 per million output tokens.
Official Moonshot/Kimi Forum announcement identifies Kimi K3 with native vision and states API token pricing per million tokens. Recorded uncached input and output prices; cached input is stated separately.
Model Intelligence
Recent stories
Posts linked to Kimi K3’s weight release, with creators testing it in Claude Code, Cursor, and local hardware discussions. Aakash Gupta said Moonshot revenue rose at least 6x after launch.
Posts compared Kimi K3 with Fable on Rocket League-style app builds, finding stronger UI than physics and game feel. Other users said one large prompt could burn a 5-hour window and 20% of a weekly $20 plan.
Levelsio shared a repeatable OpenCode setup using a paid Kimi Code API key and BUILD mode after OpenRouter limits and Claude Code safety blocks. Other users reported Kimi Code quotas interrupting small game builds.
Illscience found Kimi K3 strong on prose reasoning but costly per task because it used more tokens than expected. LLMJunky's Rocket League-style test said the model made good UI but lacked Fable-level polish.
Creators posted open-weights benchmarks and tests comparing Kimi K3 with GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5. Demos covered UI animation, games, Seedance renders, kernel code, and reported OpenRouter rate limits.