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Moonshot AI · Kimi K3

Kimi K3

Open weightsGenerally availablecustom (Kimi K3 License)

Moonshot's open-weight flagship: a 2.8T-total / 104B-active multimodal MoE with 1M context, aimed at long-horizon coding and agentic knowledge work. It is the priciest API in this group.

AA Intelligence
44#14 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$3.00/ $15.00
Output speed
35tok/s
Context window
1.05M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#14 of 142
    44independentv4.3.2, reasoning, max effortArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    34independentv4.3.2, reasoning, low effort (AA-estimated)Artificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (low) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#27 of 88
    12.6%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#15 of 103
    88.3%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1, maxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    85%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#6 of 94
    59.5%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    58.7%vendormaxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#19 of 103
    1686vendorGDPval-AA v2, max (as reported by Moonshot)Kimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    1524independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoning, max effortArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • BrowseComp#2 of 14
    91.2%vendormaxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

  • MCP Atlas#1 of 9
    84.2%vendormaxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.2%

  • OSWorld-Verified#1 of 16
    84.8%vendorOSWorld-Verified, maxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#13 of 142
    93.5%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    93.5%vendormaxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#16 of 147
    56%vendormax, with tools, full setKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
    46.9%independentreasoning, max effort, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    43.5%vendormax, no tools, full setKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#11 of 139
    23.4%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    23.4%vendormaxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#1 of 139
    88.7%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗
    74.7%vendormax (vendor-run)Kimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#15 of 72
    80.5%independentreasoning, max effort, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

  • Video-MME#1 of 4
    90%vendorwith subtitles, maxKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 90%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#10 of 54
    1485independentarena entry "kimi-k3-max", 20,987 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

  • LMArena WebDev#7 of 54
    1660independentarena entry "kimi-k3-max", 13,252 votes, checked 2026-09-25Arena (LMArena) WebDev/Code leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1818

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
MMMU-Pro · first of two values reported (81.6 / 83.4); the card does not label the two settings81.6%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
DeepSWE · max67.5%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
FrontierSWE · max81.2 scorevendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
Toolathlon-Verified · max76.5%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
Agents' Last Exam · max28.3%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
OSWorld 2.0 · max58.3%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗
Kimi Code Bench 2.0 · max72.9%vendorKimi K3 model card (Hugging Face) ↗

Specs

Released
July 16, 2026
Parameters
2.8T total, 104B active
Size class
2 to 4T
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
1.05M tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.30 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$6.60 / 1M
First token
3.84s
  • Price: Kimi API pricing (chat models) ↗ Cache-miss input rate; cache hits $0.30.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Kimi K3 (max) (max) ↗

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