Moonshot AI Kimi K3 — status, pricing and lifecycle
No. Kimi K3 is active at Moonshot AI and has no announced end date.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Kimi K3 takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Moonshot AI's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- $3.00 / M tokens
- Output price
- $15.00 / M tokens
- Price band
- Premium
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- Kimi K3 License
- Model maker
- Moonshot AI
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
Moonshot AI has not announced a deprecation or shutdown date for this model. That is a statement about what has been published, not a guarantee — providers typically announce a shutdown months ahead, and this page updates when they do.
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced
- Retired not announced
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Moonshot AI's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
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Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- platform.kimi.ai https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k3.md
- platform.kimi.ai https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/models
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- What does Kimi K3 cost?
- $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, as last verified on 2026-09-10.
- What is the context window of Kimi K3?
- 1M tokens.
- Is Kimi K3 deprecated?
- No. Kimi K3 is active at Moonshot AI and has no announced end date.