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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

Jul 16
Oct 27, 2025

What it does

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.
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.

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

Not published
Not published

Download

FreeOpen weights, non-commercial licence
FreeOpen weights

Where to use it

Moonshot AI's app: Kimi ↗
MiniMax's app: MiniMax Agent ↗

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$3.00
$0.30Cheaper

Output

Per million tokens

$15.00
$1.20Cheaper

Cached input

Per million tokens

$0.30
Not listed

Context window

How much it takes in at once

1.05M tokens about 790,000 wordsBigger
205K tokens about 150,000 words

How they score

Combined test score

Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI

159#23 of 237
Not ranked

Only Kimi K3 is in this ranking.

Chat answers, by people's votes

LMArena text, adjusted for style · LMArena

1,487#16 of 86
Not ranked

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

Building apps, by people's votes

LMArena WebDev · LMArena

1,657#15 of 85
Not ranked

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

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