Kimi K3: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price
The Kimi K3 release offers 2 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 2 models.
- For intelligence, the top model of Kimi K3 is Kimi K3 (max) at 44.
- For output speed, the fastest model is Kimi K3 (max) at 35 t/s.
- For latency, Kimi K3 (max) at 60.95s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Kimi K3 (low) at $1.15 offers the lowest cost per task. Prices vary up to 1.7x across models.
| Reasoning | Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist. |
|---|---|
| Input modality | Supports: text and image |
| Output modality | Supports: text |
| Context window | 1M ~1573 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font |
| Active parameters | 104B Number of parameters active per token during inference |
| Model weights | Hugging Face |
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Speed & Latency
Output Speed
Capability Scores
Capability Indices
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Terminal-Bench v4.0 · Higher is better
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better
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Further details
Weights | Provider Benchmarks | ||||||||
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| Kimi K3 (max) |  Kimi | 44 | 2.8T 104B active at inference time | 1M | $2.3 | 35 |    +9 | ||
| Kimi K3 (low) | Kimi | 30 | 2.8T 104B active at inference time | 1M | $2.3 | 35 |   |