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Kimi K3 (Low)

open weights★ featured
Moonshot AI · released 2026-07-16 · 35 offers

Context 1M tokens

Top 5 cheapest providers (Adjusted $/task)

The same list price can give a different adjusted $/task (caching, token efficiency) — click a price for its inputs.

Within the active global provider, residency and confidentiality filters.

#ProviderAdjusted $/task
1Relacevia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Relace's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers), collected 2026-11-03.
2Wafervia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Wafer's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers), collected 2026-11-03.
3Sail Researchvia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Sail Research's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers), collected 2026-11-03.
4Makoravia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Makora's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers), collected 2026-11-03.
5InferenceNetvia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for InferenceNet's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers), collected 2026-11-03.

Composite

6 of 7 inputs · 4 from the model family6 radar axes: DesignArena's two boards share one

68.0

includes −2.9 for its Benchmaxxing signal (from 70.8; why, switch off in Options)

AA Coding v4.xCoding Agent v1.4AA IntelligenceAA AgenticEpoch ECISoftware ECIDesignArenaAA Coding v4.x: percentile 85AA Intelligence: percentile 78Epoch ECI: percentile 73Software ECI: percentile 76DesignArena: percentile 87

AA Coding v4.x 72.0Coding Agent v1.4 —AA Intelligence 17.4AA Agentic —Epoch ECI 158.3Software ECI 160.8DesignArena 1282/1315

Radar: percentile among all models measured on each input; a gap means not measured.

Benchmark sheet

19 of 319 registered benchmark versions · bars show the percentile among all models measured on each benchmark.

Composite attachments (used in the score, not counted as exact benchmarks):
  • Epoch ECI · attached
  • Software ECI · attached
  • DesignArena Web Apps (agentic) · attached
  • DesignArena Full-Stack · attached
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Agentic

  • AA-Briefcase53987 Elo

    AA-Briefcase published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests multi-week professional knowledge-work projects with linked tasks and large source collections.

  • GDPval-AA v2651,196 Elo

    GDPval-AA v2 v2 → · Published board — Tests professional knowledge-work deliverables across occupations using AA's Stirrup harness.

  • Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA)8582.4%

    Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA) v2.1 → · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 89-task verified refresh using Terminus 2.

Coding

  • SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.16852.7%

    SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests scientific Python programming with scientist-annotated background information.

  • AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-278572.0

    AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-27 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis withdrew the Coding Index with Intelligence Index v5.0 (2026-10-28). These are the last v4.x values, frozen with their own date (2026-10-27).

Knowledge

Long-context

  • GDP.pdf (AA)7318.6%

    GDP.pdf (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests professional reasoning over long PDFs with AA document preparation and grading.

  • AA-LCR v1.18579.3%

    AA-LCR v1.1 v1.1 → · Published board — Tests reasoning across multiple long documents with corrected answer keys and grading.

  • Context Arena — MRCR v2 (8-needle)2660.0%

    Context Arena — MRCR v2 (8-needle) 8-needle → · Published board — The model must find and reproduce the right one of eight near-identical earlier replies hidden in a long conversation, averaged over context lengths from 8k to 128k tokens.

Reasoning

  • ARC-AGI-11165.7%

    ARC-AGI-1 v1 → · Published board — The first-generation ARC-AGI benchmark measuring passive fluid intelligence, with leaderboard score plotted against cost-per-task.

  • ARC-AGI-2712.4%

    ARC-AGI-2 v2 → · Published board — The second-generation ARC-AGI benchmark of passive fluid intelligence, with leaderboard score plotted against cost-per-task.

  • Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI)3620.0%

    Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI) published 2026-09-18 → · Published board — Best-move selection on 100 novel chess positions generated programmatically by Epoch AI, each with a single Stockfish-verified best move; probes spatial reasoning and planning.

  • Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI)1212.0%

    Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI) published 2026-09-18 → · Published board — Best-move selection on 100 mid-game positions of a well-known game whose identity Epoch deliberately keeps undisclosed, generated programmatically like Chess Puzzles.

  • AA Intelligence Index v5.0 · snapshot-2026-11-031717.4

    AA Intelligence Index v5.0 · snapshot-2026-11-03 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0. Models AA has not rescored on v5.0 are listed as estimates from their frozen v4.x value (isotonic fit over the models measured on both versions), never as measurements.

Science

Tool-use

  • AutomationBench-AA v1.0.66849.3%

    AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6 → · Published board — Tests multi-app SaaS workflows through REST tools on a held-out AutomationBench split.

  • τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.18841.6%

    τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests banking support agents that retrieve policies and change account state through tools.

Vision

Missing coverage · 300 benchmark versions

No result does not mean a zero, or that the model was never tested. Collection failures and disputed versions retain their distinct status.

Variants / reasoning settings

Artificial Analysis snapshot 2026-11-03 · Intelligence Index v5.0 (est. = estimated from v4, not measured) · Coding Index v4.x frozen 2026-10-27 · Data: Artificial Analysis · Data: Epoch AI (CC BY)

VariantAA CodingAA Intelligence
Kimi K3 (Max)76.233.4est.
Kimi K3 (Low)72.017.4
Kimi K3——

SUBSCRIPTION PLAN

GitHub Copilot

Current usage-based billing · model token cost is converted to AI Credits at 1 credit = $0.01.

Input $3.00 / 1M
Cached input $0.300 / 1M
Output $15.00 / 1M
Status GA
Token offers by platform · 34 offers (Adjusted $/task)

Click any underlined price to see how it is estimated and where each input comes from. How we calculate adjusted cost.

34 offers within the active global filters, 1 more outside them; “price n/a” means the provider serves the model but publishes no direct token price we could collect — no other channel's price is shown in its place.

OpenRouter (29)

Prices via OpenRouter — what OpenRouter charges for each provider's endpoint, not the provider's own direct price. Source: openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3/providers, collected 2026-11-03.

Relace
Wafer
Sail Research
Sail Research
Wafer
Makora
InferenceNet
InferenceNet
ParetoAlpha
Wafer
Chutes
Decart
Morph
InferenceNet
InferenceNet
Phala
DigitalOcean
AkashML
DeepInfra
Parasail
Modal
Together
Fireworks
BaseTen
Moonshot AI
Amazon Bedrock
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks

Chutes (1)

Direct prices from Chutes's own price list. Source: llm.chutes.ai/v1/models, collected 2026-11-03.

Chutes

TensorX (1)

Direct prices from TensorX's own price list. Source: tensorx.ai/pricing/, collected 2026-11-03.

TensorX

Nebius (1)

Direct prices from Nebius's own price list. Source: tokenfactory.nebius.com/models, collected 2026-11-03.

Nebius

Azure AI Foundry (2)

Direct prices from Azure AI Foundry's own price list. Source: prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices, collected 2026-11-03.

Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry
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