# Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a Moonshot AI language model released Jul 16, 2026; Moonshot AI's newest language model in our dataset is Kimi K3.1 Pro. Open weights (Kimi K3 License (custom)). Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weights model with native vision and a 1M-token context, released under a custom Kimi K3 license. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.

Last verified: 2026-10-26 · Evidence: Reported · Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/models/kimi-k3 · JSON: https://theagenticweekly.com/api/models/kimi-k3

## Key facts

| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Moonshot AI |  |
| Released | Jul 16, 2026 | https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3 |
| API id | `kimi-k3` | https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens (1M) | https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3 |
| Parameters | 2.8T total, 16 of 896 experts active, mixture-of-experts | https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 |
| Licence | Kimi K3 License (custom) (open weights). Model-as-a-service businesses above US$20M revenue in 12 months need a separate agreement; large products must display "Kimi K3". | https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 |
| Pricing | $3 in / $15 out per 1M tokens. Cache-miss input $3.00, cache-hit $0.30, output $15.00. | https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat |

## What we tested

Nothing yet. We have not run Kimi K3 ourselves, so every fact here is Reported from the sources below.

## Not verified, left out

- Input/output modalities beyond "native vision" were not captured.

## Sources

- [Kimi K3 blog](https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3)
- [Hugging Face model card](https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3)
- [Kimi API pricing](https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat)
- [Kimi K3 quickstart (Moonshot platform docs)](https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart)

Data licence: CC BY 4.0. Data: Agentic Weekly (https://theagenticweekly.com), CC BY 4.0.