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Kimi K3 Pricing
MoonshotAI · moonshotai-kimi-k3
Input / 1M tokens
$2.60
Output / 1M tokens
$13.00
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
≈ 1,398 pages of text
Max output
943,718 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0083
1,000 requests / month$8.32/mo10,000 requests / month$83.20/mo100,000 requests / month$832.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Kimi K3 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jul 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Strong performance on long-context tasks up to 1M tokens, including document analysis and vision inputs.
The business tradeoff
Open-weights release leads to variable inference quality across deployments; high output-token pricing relative to input.
Cheaper from MoonshotAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Sep 11, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.