Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · Multimodal · Released Jul 2026
Kimi K3 is a multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI with a 1M+ token context window designed for complex problem-solving and long-context tasks.
- Strengths
- Handles extended reasoning chains and processes very large documents or codebases without losing context, with particular strength in complex coding and knowledge work.
- Best for
- Long-horizon agentic workflows, full-codebase analysis, and tasks requiring sustained reasoning over substantial amounts of input material.
- Limitations
- As a newer model in the Moonshot lineup, it has not yet been compared extensively against specialized variants like K2.7 Code, which may perform better on pure coding tasks in production use.
Input / 1M
$0.169
Output / 1M
$20.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.159
Context window
1.05M
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in decreased 94.4% out increased 33.3%
- 90d
- in decreased 94.4% out increased 33.3%
- 1y
- in decreased 94.4% out increased 33.3%
- Since launch
- in decreased 94.4% out increased 33.3%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2026 | $0.169 | $20.00 | $0.159 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 26 Oct 2026 | $0.169 | $20.00 | $0.159 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Oct 2026 | $0.239 | $10.80 | $0.21 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 19 Oct 2026 | $0.239 | $11.94 | $0.21 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Oct 2026 | $0.304 | $11.94 | $0.21 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Oct 2026 | $0.45 | $15.00 | $0.28 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 14 Oct 2026 | $0.5 | $15.00 | $0.28 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 13 Oct 2026 | $0.73 | $10.00 | $0.55 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Oct 2026 | $0.73 | $10.00 | $0.55 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Oct 2026 | $0.8 | $13.50 | $0.55 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 10 Oct 2026 | $0.3 | $14.90 | $0.2 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 9 Oct 2026 | $0.9 | $14.00 | $0.6 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 8 Oct 2026 | $0.99 | $14.00 | $0.66 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 7 Oct 2026 | $0.5 | $15.00 | $0.43 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 6 Oct 2026 | $0.69 | $14.00 | $0.23 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 5 Oct 2026 | $1.39 | $14.00 | $0.46 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 4 Oct 2026 | $0.72 | $13.00 | $0.7 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Oct 2026 | $0.99 | $13.00 | $0.8 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 2 Oct 2026 | $2.70 | $13.50 | $0.27 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 1 Oct 2026 | $0.6635 | $10.00 | $0.6635 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 25 Sep 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.3 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 21 Sep 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.3 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 19 Sep 2026 | $1.70 | $8.50 | $0.17 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 18 Sep 2026 | $2.10 | $10.95 | $0.23 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Sep 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.3 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Sep 2026 | $2.65 | $13.28 | $0.3026 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Sep 2026 | $2.34 | $11.70 | $0.261 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 31 Aug 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.3 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Jul 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.3 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |