Kimi K3
Moonshot's agentic coding update to Kimi K2, positioned around long-horizon tool use, with open weights and publisher-reported coding and science benchmarks.
Kimi K3 is available on MiniRouter as . The model page has current pricing, provider routes and API setup.
About the model
- Context: 256K. Per the announcement's spec table
- Price: $0.60 / $2.40. Per 1M input / output tokens; cached input at $0.15 per 1M
- Weights: Released. Modified MIT on Hugging Face, following the K2 licensing pattern
- Reasoning effort: low / high. Two publisher-described effort levels; high is the default
Publisher pricing
Pricing below comes from the linked publisher sources and does not represent a MiniRouter route or price.
| Phase | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended / 1M | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.60 | $2.40 | $1.05 | Aug 8, 2026 – open-ended | Moonshot AI ↗ |
Publisher-reported benchmarks
Results from the publisher’s announcement, grouped by unit.
| Benchmark | Reported result | Reported by | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Pro | 72.4% | Moonshot AI | Aug 8, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| Terminal Bench 2.1 | 84.1% | Moonshot AI | Aug 8, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.9% | Moonshot AI | Aug 8, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 63.8% | Moonshot AI | Aug 8, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
Moonshot reports the benchmark figures; MiniRouter has not reproduced them.
Independent measurements
Artificial Analysis evaluations of the first-party API.
Kimi K3 (max) ranks #12 of 462 model families on their Intelligence Index. Their headline uses the highest-scoring effort setting; every listed setting is below.
- Intelligence Index
- 43.6
- Composite of their evaluations
- Coding Index
- 76.2
- Coding evaluations only
- Blended price
- $6
- USD per 1M tokens, 3:1 input to output, first-party list
- Output speed
- 40
- Median tokens per second
- First answer token
- 53s
- Median seconds, including reasoning
| Setting | Intelligence Index | Coding Index | Blended price | Output speed | First answer token |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 (max) ↗ | 43.6 | 76.2 | $6 | 40 | 53s |
| Kimi K3 (low) ↗ | 34.5 | 72.0 | $6 | 39 | 55s |
Source: Artificial Analysis ↗, read Sep 21, 2026. Measured on the model's first-party API, not a MiniRouter route.
Keep exploring
Compare published results in the model rankings and coding benchmarks, or read more model releases.
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Sources
- Read at Moonshot AI ↗
Moonshot AI announcement
Published Aug 8, 2026
- Read at Artificial Analysis ↗
Artificial Analysis model page
Published Sep 21, 2026
Editorial reference revised 2026-10-17. Catalog status comes from the generated routing snapshot.