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Kimi K3 Pricing

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Moonshot AI · 1M tokens context

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI costs $0.239 per 1 million input tokens and $11.94 per 1 million output tokens as of October 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 1,048,576-token context window (approximately 786,432 words) with a 944K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0002 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0024.

Kimi K3 pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.239 / 1M tokens
Output price$11.94 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio49.9×
Context window1,048,576 tokens (~786,432 words)
Maximum output943,718 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0002
TierFast
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Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.239

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$11.94

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

1M tokens

max 944K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.000319$0.00477
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000797$0.0119
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.0012$0.0179
100K token document100,000$0.0239$0.3581

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • ✓Affordable at $0.24/1M input tokens
  • ✓Massive 1M-token context window
  • ✓Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • ✓Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • –Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • –Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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