Moonshot AI · v3 · siet 16. Juli 2026 (API/Hosted); vollständige Gewichte am 26./27. Juli 2026 · 3× · tolest 04. Aug. 2026
Kimi K3 (referred to in some media as "Kimi 3") is Moonshot AI's flagship large language model, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, of which 104 billion (16 of 896 experts) are activated per token. It launched on July 16, 2026 as a hosted API product, with full weights following on July 26/27, 2026 under a bespoke "Kimi K3 License" (MIT-inspired but with commercial-use restrictions above $20M annual revenue). It offers native multimodal understanding (text, image, video), a 1-million-token context window, and scores around 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking among the world's leading models, just behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
Features
| Key Benchmark (%) | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 57.1 points (rank 4 of 189 models) |
| Context Window (Tokens) | 1,048,576 tokens (1M) |
| License | Custom "Kimi K3 License" (MIT-inspired); commercial use above $20M annual revenue requires separate agreement; not OSI open source since training data/code are not released |
| Multimodality | Native support for text, image, and video |
| Platform | kimi.com, Kimi mobile apps, Kimi Code, Kimi Work, API (api.moonshot.ai), Hugging Face, vLLM/SGLang |
| Price per 1M Tokens | $3.00 input (cache-miss) / $0.30 input (cache-hit) / $15.00 output |
| Release Date | July 16, 2026 (API launch); open weights on July 26–27, 2026 |