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Kimi K3: price, performance and context
Open Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI costs $0.82 per 1M input and $13.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,100 pages of text) and scores 43.6 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 16 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 18 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.82
- Output / 1M tokens
- $13.50
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max. output
- 943.7K tokens
- Performance index
- 43.6 points · rank 16 of 212
- Coding index
- 76.2 points · rank 10 of 119
- Agentic index
- 50 points · rank 12 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $4.195 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Jul 16, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling
Placements by task
- Rank 9 in Coding
- Rank 2 in Websites
- Rank 4 in UI components
- Rank 5 in Game development
- Rank 4 in Data visualisation
- Rank 4 in 3D scenes
- Rank 4 in SVG graphics
- Rank 3 in Web apps (agent)
- Rank 2 in Full stack (agent)
- Rank 4 in Mobile apps (agent)
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.007 | 1,400 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.006 | 1,800 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.009 | 1,100 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.018 | 560 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.109 | 91 |
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