Kimi K3: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price
Model summary
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 45 t/s.
- For latency, Kimi K3 (Max) at 48.58s 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 |
| Total parameters | 2.8T |
| Active parameters | 104B Number of parameters active per token during inference |
| License | Kimi K3 License |
| Model weights | Hugging Face |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
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 Indexes
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better
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Further details
Weights | Provider Benchmarks | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 (Max) |  Kimi | 44 | 2.8T 104B active at inference time | 1M | $2.3 | 45 |    +10 | ||
| Kimi K3 (Low) | Kimi | 30 | 2.8T 104B active at inference time | 1M | $2.3 | 43 |   |