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Kimi K3

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on 16 Jul 2026. API list price: $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. Its weights are public.

The record

each fact with its source

Released

16 Jul 2026

2.8T-parameter MoE with 1M context; the largest open-weight release to date, under a bespoke licence The lab’s announcement

API list price, per million tokens

$3.00 in $15.00 out

Standard input (cache miss). Cached input $0.30.

Moonshot AI’s pricing page, read 23 Oct 2026

On the free plan?

Open weights

The weights are public. The Access Gap, which checks whether new models reach the free app plan, does not track this one.

Moonshot AI’s other recent models

data through 30 Oct 2026

  1. 24 Oct 2026 Kimi K3.1 Pro Post-trained version of Kimi K3 with a 1M-token context, live on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API on the day; open weights promised by 4 Nov
  2. 20 Apr 2026 Kimi K2.6 Agentic coding, general availability
  3. 27 Jan 2026 Kimi K2.5 Multimodal update, on Kimi.com, the app, the API and Kimi Code from launch
  4. 25 Jan 2025 Kimi K1.5 Reasoning model matching o1, on the global Kimi web from 25 Jan; the API was by application

Kimi K3 in Moonshot AI’s full release log · its row on the release chart

Release dates and notes come from the site’s release record, data through 30 Oct 2026; each links the lab’s own announcement. Prices are list prices as the lab’s pricing page printed them on the day shown, before any discount. Something wrong? Tell us.