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Kimi K3

MoonshotAIReleased Jul 16, 2026moonshotai/kimi-k3
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Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter flagship multimodal reasoning model with a 1M-token context window, designed for long-horizon coding, complex knowledge work, visual reasoning, and tool-using workflows. It uses Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals to support efficient million-token contexts and always runs in high-effort reasoning mode. The model is exposed via an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API.

Context
1.05M
Max output
1.05M
Input /1M
$3.00
Output /1M
$15.00
Blended /1M
$6.00
AcceptsTextImageProducesTextTokenizer Other

Providers

4 providers serve this model. FastRouter routes each request to the best available one, and you can bring your own key for any of them.

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TelnyxCheapest
telnyx
Input /1M$2.70
Output /1M$13.50
Context1.05M
Max output1.05M
Latency—
Throughput—
Supports tool callingSupports structured (JSON) output
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Alibaba
alibaba
Input /1M$3.00
Output /1M$15.00
Context1.05M
Max output1.05M
Latency—
Throughput—
Supports tool callingSupports structured (JSON) output
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Baseten
baseten
Input /1M$3.00
Output /1M$15.00
Context1.05M
Max output1.05M
Latency—
Throughput—
Supports tool callingSupports structured (JSON) output
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Moonshot AI
moonshotai
Input /1M$3.00
Output /1M$15.00
Context1.05M
Max output1.05M
Latency—
Throughput—
Supports tool callingSupports structured (JSON) output

Supported parameters

Request parameters you can send with this model.

Core (Sampling & basic generation)

max_completion_tokens
Maximum tokens in the completion.
stop
Sequences where generation stops.
temperature
Controls randomness of output.
top_k
Limits sampling to top K tokens.
top_p
Nucleus sampling threshold.
max_tokens
Maximum tokens to generate.

Reasoning (Reasoning Controls)

reasoning_effort
Reasoning effort before answering.

Tool Use (Function Calls & Tools)

tool_choice
How the model should use tools.
tools
Tool/function definitions available to the model.

Output & Format (Response Formatting)

response_format
Structured output format configuration.

Performance

Median throughput and time to first token per provider over the last week.

Throughput

Latency

Make your first API call

OpenAI-compatible. Point your SDK at FastRouter, or call the API directly.

Full API docs
Replace <FASTROUTER_API_KEY> with your key · Get your key →Install
OpenAI SDKHTTP
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", # FastRouter base URL
api_key= "<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>", # Replace with your FastRouter API key
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="moonshotai/kimi-k3", # Replace with your model ID
messages=[
{ "role": "user", "content": "What is the meaning of life?" }
]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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Model scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis