Kimi K3 pricing, context window and limits
Kimi K3 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens at Moonshot AI list price. It accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 1,048,576 tokens.
- Model id
kimi-k3 - Snapshot
What does Kimi K3 cost?
| Input | $3 |
|---|---|
| Output | $15 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.3 |
| Cache write | — |
US dollars per million tokens. A dash means no price is published.
How much can Kimi K3 read and write?
| Context window | 1,048,576 |
|---|---|
| Max output | 1,048,576 |
What can Kimi K3 do?
| Vision (image input) | Yes |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes |
| Input | text, image, video |
| Output | text |
What does a request to Kimi K3 cost?
| A typical request: 1,000 tokens in, 500 out | $0.011 |
|---|---|
| A long request: 10,000 tokens in, 1,000 out | $0.045 |
| 1,000 typical requests | $10.5 |
| 1 million tokens in and 1 million out | $18 |
Input read from the provider's prompt cache costs $0.3 per million tokens instead of $3, 90% less. A request that repeats a 1,000-token prompt from the cache costs $0.0078 instead of $0.011.
Among 4 Moonshot AI models with a published price, Kimi K3 is the 4th cheapest by input price. Its context window is the largest of 4. List prices only; discounts, batch prices and prices above 200K tokens are not shown.
How do I call Kimi K3 through DVARA?
Configure the moonshot provider in the DVARA LLM Gateway and send the model id kimi-k3. DVARA, the AI governance platform, applies your policies, audit and cost attribution to the call. See LLM cost attribution and budgets.
In DVARA, if you haven't set your own price for a model, its calls are costed at the price in the catalogue that ships with your DVARA version. A price you set in Flightdeck always wins. You can switch catalogue prices off. Then a model with no price you set is counted as costing nothing. Every cost record says which price it used.
Which other Moonshot AI models are there?
- Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed$1.9 in · $8 out · 262K context
- Kimi K2.7 Code$0.95 in · $4 out · 262K context
- Kimi K2.6$0.95 in · $4 out · 262K context
Which models from other providers are similar to Kimi K3?
These are the closest in context window and input price, one per provider.
- Kimi K3 (Global)Amazon Bedrock · $3 in · $15 out · 1.05M context
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 (latest)Anthropic · $3 in · $15 out · 1M context
- GPT-5.4OpenAI · $2.5 in · $15 out · 1.05M context
- Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba Qwen · $2.5 in · $7.5 out · 1M context
- Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle Gemini · $2 in · $12 out · 1.05M context