MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI's Kimi K3 is a high-capability multimodal model with particularly strong coding performance. It offers a one-million-token context window, vision, tool use, and function calling, making it suitable for large codebases, technical documents, and workflows that combine analysis with action.
Design for Online would consider it for software engineering, complex agentic tasks, technical SEO systems, and high-value client content where reasoning depth matters. The agentic result is capable but below the strongest agent specialists, so lengthy autonomous sequences should use checkpoints and tool-result validation. Vision broadens its usefulness beyond text-only coding and analysis.
Input pricing is manageable for premium work, but output pricing is high for volume operations. Adopt Kimi K3 when coding quality, long context, and multimodal tool use justify premium token costs.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Kimi K3 delivers excellent reasoning, standout coding, a one-million-token context, vision, and reliable tool and function calling. Its high output price makes it best suited to complex engineering and agentic work rather than bulk content generation.
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DFO Verdict
Kimi K3 delivers excellent reasoning, standout coding, a one-million-token context, vision, and reliable tool and function calling. Its high output price makes it best suited to complex engineering and agentic work rather than bulk content generation.
How MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 compares
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 ranks #6 of 424 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #7 of 197 for coding, #12 of 179 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $3.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 11% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
| Output | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
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Talk to our teamAbout MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at..
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Frequently asked questions about MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
How much does MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 cost?
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of MoonshotAI: Kimi K3?
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
Is MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 ranks #7 of 197 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 do?
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created MoonshotAI: Kimi K3?
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 is developed by MoonshotAI and was released on July 16, 2026.
