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Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go)

  • Kimi K3: $3.00 input / $15.00 output per M tokens
  • Cached input (cache hit): $0.30 per M tokens
  • 1M-token context window
  • 2.8T-parameter, natively multimodal reasoning model with always-on “thinking mode”
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Kimi K3 costs $0.30 to $15 per per million tokens as of July 2026. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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Kimi K3 offers 1 pricing tiers: Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go). The Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go) plan is long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and advanced reasoning tasks needing a 1m-token context window.

Compared to other llm api providers software, Kimi K3 is positioned at the budget-friendly price point.

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How much does Kimi K3 cost?

Kimi K3 pricing starts at $0.30/per million tokens across 1 plans, with enterprise pricing available on request. Plans include Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go) (custom pricing).

Kimi K3 Pricing Overview

Kimi K3 has 1 pricing plans ranging from $0.30 to $15/per million tokens. The Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go) plan requires contacting sales for a custom quote and is designed for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and advanced reasoning tasks needing a 1m-token context window.

This pricing was last verified in July 19, 2026 from 2 independent sources.

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Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens as of July 2026, with cache-hit input discounted to $0.30 per million. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal reasoning model with a 1-million-token context window built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning. It is designed as an open-weight model, though full public weight release was still pending at launch.

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Per-unit pricing for Kimi K3 API usage.

Kimi K3 API (Pay-as-you-go)

Model Input Output Cached Per
kimi-k3 1000K ctx $3.00 $15.00 $0.300 1M tokens
  • Pricing cross-referenced via OpenRouter (moonshotai/kimi-k3) and multiple third-party trackers citing Moonshot's official platform.kimi.ai rate card
  • Full open-weight release was reported pending as of verification date (2026-07-19) — hosted API access confirmed

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Kimi K3 Pricing FAQ

01 How much does Kimi K3 cost per million tokens?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, with cache-hit input tokens discounted to $0.30 per million — a 90% discount versus standard input.

02 When was Kimi K3 released?

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, as a 2.8-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal reasoning model with a 1-million-token context window.

03 Is Kimi K3 open-weight?

Kimi K3 is designed as an open-weight model, though full public weight release was still reported pending as of its July 16, 2026 launch — check Moonshot AI's official channels for the current weight-release status.

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