moonshotai/kimi-k3

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Context length
1049K
Input / 1M tokens
$0.17
Output / 1M tokens
$20.00
Released
2026-07-16
Modality
text+image+video->text

About MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

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...

Call MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Via OpenRouter: one base URL for every provider.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello"}]
  }'

Direct on Moonshot AI (Kimi):

curl https://api.moonshot.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MOONSHOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "kimi-k3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello"}]
  }'

Moonshot AI (Kimi) keys

OpenRouter keys

OpenRouter keys work for moonshotai/kimi-k3 regardless of the upstream provider.