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Using Kimi K3 on Featherless

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Featherless exposes Kimi K3 through model ID moonshotai/Kimi-K3. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-09-24. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Featherless and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Featherless SDK or REST API to call moonshotai/Kimi-K3 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $3.00/1M input, $15.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
FEATHERLESS_API_KEY
Model ID
moonshotai/Kimi-K3

Use exact Featherless catalog id in modelProvider.providerModelId (HF-style org/name). Not interchangeable with LLM Reference slugs.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.featherless.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["FEATHERLESS_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Featherless

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$3.00
Output tokens$15.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt Caching

About Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter flagship multimodal model for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and agentic workflows. It uses Kimi Delta Attention, Attention Residuals, and a sparse MoE design (16 of 896 experts active), supports a 1,048,576-token context window, text/image/video input, always-on reasoning, ToolCalls, strict JSON Schema structured output, automatic context caching, and partial mode through Moonshot's OpenAI-compatible API.

Model Specs

Released2026-07-14
Parameters2.8T total; 16 of 896 experts active
Context1.05m
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

Featherless
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