Kimi K3

Moonshot AI · released 3 weeks ago

Kimi K3 is a Moonshot AI model with a 1.05M token context window — about 1,500 pages of text. It reads Text and Images and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$3.45

input / 1M tokens

$17.25

output / 1M tokens

1.05M

context — about 1,500 pages

3.1¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input

$3.45 per million tokens

Output

$17.25 per million tokens

Cached input

$0.345 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider

Moonshot AI

Released

3 weeks ago (2026-07-16)

Context window

1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages

Max output

Not specified

Input

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking before answering

Cost vs Token Amount

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

1.6¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

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Compare Kimi K3

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Questions, answered

How much does Kimi K3 cost on Alyph?

Kimi K3 costs $3.45 per million input tokens and $17.25 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 3.1¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Kimi K3's context window?

1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Can Kimi K3 read images and files?

Kimi K3 reads Text and Images. Drop a file onto the canvas and it becomes part of the context — the only limit is the context window.

Does Kimi K3 show its reasoning?

Yes. Kimi K3 can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

Test Kimi K3 against Claude Sonnet 4

One prompt, both models at the same time, the better answer wins. Free to start, with $5 of credit.