MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Provider: moonshotai · moonshotai/kimi-k3
How MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 pricing compares
At $15 / 1M output tokens, MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 is the 8th-cheapest of 8 moonshotai models we track. It's cheaper than 12% of the 392 paid models on computetrail (347th-cheapest overall). Output costs 5.0× its input price ($3 / 1M in). For a typical 3:1 input-to-output workload that works out to about $6.00 / 1M blended. Reading cached input costs 90% less than fresh input, so prompt caching cuts repeat-context cost sharply. Its 1,048,576 tokens context window ranks 47th-largest of 392 models with a published limit.
Output price history
Across 42 daily snapshots since 2026-07-17, the output price has held steady at $15 / 1M — no change so far.
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| Model | Provider | Output $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search | perplexity | $15 | 200,000 |
| Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 | anthropic | $15 | 1,000,000 |
| Perplexity: Sonar Pro | perplexity | $15 | 200,000 |
| Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 | amazon | $12.5 | 1,000,000 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5 | openai | $10 | 400,000 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro | $10 | 1,048,576 |
Prices are recorded daily from public provider data via OpenRouter and normalized to USD per 1M tokens. See methodology.