
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
moonshotai/kimi-k3:batch
Model weightsKimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback. Its architecture uses KDA and Attention Residuals for computational efficiency.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $2.28 | $11.40 | $0.228 | -- | -- |
Input $2.28 / Output $11.40-- tok/s-- uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Kimi K3 (batch) — Price history
| $0.00 | $0.00 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
- Effective in $0.00 / Effective out $0.00Token share100.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Not enough uptime data to display yet.
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) Coding Index | 76.2 |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) Agentic Index | 50.0 |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) GPQA Diamond | 93.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) HLE | 46.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) AA-LCR | 88.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) τ-Bench Banking | 46.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) GDPval-AA | 52.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) CritPt | 23.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) SciCode | 59.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 12.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) Intelligence Index | 17.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) Coding Index | 72.0 |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) Agentic Index | 29.3 |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) GPQA Diamond | 84.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) HLE | 25.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) AA-LCR | 79.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) τ-Bench Banking | 41.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) GDPval-AA | 31.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) CritPt | 3.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) SciCode | 52.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 12.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 82.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 42.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Kimi K3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 23.4% |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Agenticgamedev Elo | 1203 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo | 1254 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Blender3d Elo | 1155 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Codetovideo Elo | 1267 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo | 1295 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Godotgamedev Elo | 1201 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo | 1149 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo | 1256 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Pdf Elo | 1279 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo | 1221 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo | 1130 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Agents Arena Webapps Elo | 1276 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena 3D Elo | 1363 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1351 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo | 1352 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1353 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena SVG Elo | 1299 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena UI Component Elo | 1341 |
| Design Arena | Kimi K3 Models Arena Website Elo | 1335 |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Access to Justice Benchmark | 68.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 BioMysteryBench | 72.6% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Code Migration v1.1 | 28.6% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 CorpFin v2 | 71.6% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 CyberBench v1.1 | 75.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 CyberOffense | 25.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 EMB v1.1 | 71.3% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Finance Agent v2.1 | 60.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals Finance Index | 58.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Financial Coaching Bench | 74.5% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 GPQA Diamond | 92.9% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 HLAB-Vals-1.1 | 12.9% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Immigration | 68.3% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals Inference Provider Index | 64.9% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 IOI | 48.9% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 LiveCodeBench | 87.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 LegalBench | 86.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals Legal Index | 71.7% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Legal Research Bench | 46.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 MedCode | 49.4% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 MedScribe | 88.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 MMLU Pro | 88.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 MMMU Pro | 88.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 MortgageTax | 66.3% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 ProgramBench | 2.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 ProofBench v1.1 | 87.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | 68.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals RSI Index | 20.9% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 SAGE | 86.8% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 SWE-bench | 93.4% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 SWE-bench Multimodal | 44.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Tax Agent Bench | 33.4% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 TaxEval v2 | 75.7% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 17.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Terminal-Bench-Science | 1.4% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals Index | 53.0% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vals Multimodal Index | 73.4% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | 18.2% |
| Vals AI | Kimi K3 Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 85.0% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Not enough data for apps using this model yet.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch) on OpenRouter.
Frequently asked questions
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback. Its architecture uses KDA and Attention Residuals for computational efficiency.
The Kimi K3 (batch) documentation on OpenRouter includes the Open-Weight vs Closed-Weight Models: What's the Difference? blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
Kimi K3 (batch) costs $2.28/M input tokens and $11.40/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.228/M tokens.
Kimi K3 (batch) has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 16,384 completion tokens.
Yes. Kimi K3 (batch) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Kimi K3 (batch) accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.
Kimi K3 (batch) is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: DeepInfra.
Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi K2.6 and 4 more are other text models from MoonshotAI.
Kimi K3 (batch) was released on July 16, 2026.