# Kimi K3 — price & specs

Source: https://modelbank.ai/models/kimi-k3 · updated 2026-11-12 · ModelBank

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Moonshot AI |
| Input price | $0.19 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $16 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.18 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 943,718 tokens |
| Input modalities | text,image,video |
| Reasoning / tool use | yes / yes |
| Intelligence / coding index | 17.4 / 72 |
| Released | 2026-07-16 |
| Retirement date | none announced |

## About

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at...

## Price history

- 2026-09-24: $3 in / $15 out
- 2026-09-25: $0.88 in / $10.53 out
- 2026-09-25: $3 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-01: $0.68 in / $10 out
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- 2026-10-02: $1.39 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-02: $2.7 in / $13.5 out
- 2026-10-03: $0.99 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-03: $0.74 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-03: $0.64 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-04: $0.5 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-04: $0.72 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-04: $0.72 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-05: $0.67 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-05: $1.39 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-05: $1.29 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-05: $1.19 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-06: $0.99 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-06: $0.83 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-06: $0.95 in / $14 out
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- 2026-10-06: $0.69 in / $15 out
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- 2026-10-08: $0.72 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-08: $0.58 in / $12.3 out
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- 2026-10-08: $0.99 in / $14 out
- 2026-10-08: $0.82 in / $13.5 out
- 2026-10-09: $0.76 in / $13 out
- 2026-10-09: $0.6 in / $12 out
- 2026-10-09: $0.53 in / $12 out
- 2026-10-09: $0.5 in / $12 out
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- 2026-10-09: $0.8 in / $13.5 out
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- 2026-10-10: $0.8 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-11: $0.8 in / $12 out
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- 2026-10-11: $0.8 in / $13.5 out
- 2026-10-11: $0.73 in / $13.5 out
- 2026-10-12: $0.73 in / $10 out
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- 2026-10-13: $0.73 in / $13.5 out
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- 2026-10-14: $0.7 in / $13.5 out
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- 2026-10-14: $0.62 in / $15 out
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- 2026-10-14: $0.58 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.48 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.45 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.45 in / $16.5 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.41 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.29 in / $12 out
- 2026-10-15: $0.41 in / $15 out
- 2026-10-16: $0.3 in / $11.59 out
- 2026-10-16: $0.3 in / $12.53 out
- 2026-10-19: $0.25 in / $11.94 out
- 2026-10-23: $0.24 in / $10.8 out
- 2026-10-26: $0.2 in / $20 out
- 2026-10-29: $0.24 in / $10.8 out
- 2026-10-30: $0.2 in / $15 out
- 2026-11-04: $0.2 in / $16 out

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