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Kimi K3

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a very large model that can read text, images and video, free to download for research and non-commercial use and aimed at long coding and knowledge-work tasks.

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The basics

Released

Oct 15, 2025
Jul 16

What it does

Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Code: Writes, explains and fixes code.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.
Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

February 2025
Not published

Download

No: it runs on the maker's servers
FreeOpen weights, non-commercial licence

Where to use it

Anthropic's app: Claude ↗Also for developers, through an API
Moonshot AI's app: Kimi ↗

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$1.00Cheaper
$3.00

Output

Per million tokens

$5.00Cheaper
$15.00

Cached input

Per million tokens

$0.10Cheaper
$0.30

Context window

How much it takes in at once

200K tokens about 150,000 words
1.05M tokens about 790,000 wordsBigger

Longest answer

64K tokens about 48,000 words
Not listed

How they score

Combined test score

Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI

143#106 of 237
159#23 of 237Higher

Kimi K3 scores 16 points higher, a big step.

Chat answers, by people's votes

LMArena text, adjusted for style · LMArena

Not ranked
1,487#16 of 86

Only Kimi K3 is in this ranking, which lists the most-voted models.

Building apps, by people's votes

LMArena WebDev · LMArena

Not ranked
1,657#15 of 85

Only Kimi K3 is in this ranking, which lists the most-voted models.

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