Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · Kimi · context window 1,048,576 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? Gemini 3.6 Flash matches or beats Kimi K3 on the overall Arena and costs about $300.00/month versus $1,200.00/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $900.00/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 18 September 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run Kimi K3
The same model is resold by 62 providers we track. The typical one charges 1.7× what the cheapest does — $6.00 against $3.50 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crof | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 |
| NanoGPT | $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.00 |
| Ainetcafe | $2.10 | $10.50 | $4.20 |
| Kilo | $2.10 | $10.95 | $4.31 |
| OpenRouter ↗ | $2.10 | $10.95 | $4.31 |
| Vancine | $2.40 | $12.00 | $4.80 |
| DigitalOcean | $2.55 | $12.95 | $5.15 |
| Aiand | $3.00 | $12.50 | $5.38 |
| Wallaby | $2.70 | $13.50 | $5.40 |
| Alibaba CN | $2.83 | $14.13 | $5.65 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 62. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with Kimi K3
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- Input cost
- $0.00300
- Output cost
- $0.00750
- Per request
- $0.0105
- Per day
- $10.50
- Per month
- $315.00
Compare Kimi K3 with
Source: Moonshot AI (Kimi) API pricing, via models.dev. Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 19 July 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.