Moonshot AI Announced Aug 8, 2026
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.
Routable on MiniRouter
Use moonshotai/kimi-k3 via the API →- 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 release announcement 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 are grouped by unit. Percentage, Elo, and task-count results never share a scale.
| 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.
- — Now routable through MiniRouter as moonshotai/kimi-k3; the model page's live price is authoritative.
What is not independently confirmed
- Every figure on this page is self-reported by the cited publisher. MiniRouter did not run these benchmarks.
- Benchmark harnesses are not standardised. Results sharing a name across vendors have not been confirmed to use identical runs.
- Publisher pricing can change, and introductory phases have stated end dates.
- Kimi K3 is routable through MiniRouter today; live pricing on its model page is authoritative over the publisher figures here.
Related coverage
Other release dossiers and the current MiniRouter catalog.
Sources
- Read at Moonshot AI ↗
Moonshot AI announcement
Published Aug 8, 2026
Page revised 2026-08-22. Dates change only when the content changes.