OpenRouter 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 2026-08-24. Next refresh: weekly.
Quick Start
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- 2Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call
moonshotai/kimi-k3— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Pricing on OpenRouter
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $2.00 |
| Output tokens | $11.20 |
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