Moonshot: Kimi K3

kimi-k3

Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's open-weight, always-thinking multimodal model for long-context reasoning, coding, tool use, and native image/video understanding.

Modalities

Text + Image + Video → Text

Input / output price

$0.585 / $12.48 per 1M

Context

1.05M

Capabilities

ReasoningVisionTool callingLong contextOpen weights

Pricing

Billed per token actually used and deducted from your credits.

ItemUSD per 1M tokens
Input$0.585
Output$12.48
Cached input$0.169

Calculator

Drag the sliders to estimate what this model will cost.

Per request
$0.0117
Per day
$5.87
Per month (30 days)
$176.08

Kimi K3: input $0.585/M · output $12.48/M · cached input $0.169/M

Request with these settings
curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "kimi-k3", "max_tokens": 800,
       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "…"}]}'

Code samples

OpenAI-compatible. Set the base URL to https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1 and the model to kimi-k3.

curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "kimi-k3",
    "stream": true,
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

Use it in a client: Cursor · Cline · SillyTavern · Codex

Parameters

Common OpenAI parameters can be passed as-is.

temperaturetop_pmax_tokensstreamstoppresence_penaltyfrequency_penaltyseed

FAQ

How is Kimi K3 billed?
Input is $0.585 and output is $12.48 per million tokens; cached input is $0.169. The charge for every request is listed in Usage Logs in the console.
How long is the context window?
1.05M tokens. In a long conversation every turn is billed for the full input, so keep the history under control.
Does it support streaming?
Yes. Add "stream": true to the request to receive server-sent events in the OpenAI format.