Kimi K3

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI
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About

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (previously previewed as Ox Alpha), designed to deliver strong coding, agentic, visual, and knowledge-work performance at relatively low inference cost. It uses 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active parameters, along with a hybrid architecture that combines sparse and linear attention to reduce the cost of long-context processing. The model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. GLM-5.3-Flash can reason across text, images, documents, interfaces, dashboards, and other visual information while using that feedback to refine its own outputs. Z.ai reports substantial gains over GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic benchmarks, including DeepSWE and AutomationBench, while approaching higher-cost frontier models on several evaluations.

About

Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s most capable model, built for frontier intelligence scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and multimodal understanding. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention mechanism, along with Attention Residuals for long-context performance. Kimi K3 supports a 1 million token context window, making it useful for analyzing large codebases, long documents, complex knowledge bases, and multi-step workflows. It includes native visual understanding for images and videos, with support for structured message formats, base64 image input, uploaded video files, and multimodal reasoning. Developers can use Kimi K3 through an OpenAI-compatible API with support for streaming, structured JSON output, partial mode, custom tools, dynamic tool loading, and automatic context caching.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, researchers, and organizations that need cost-efficient multimodal reasoning, long-context processing, advanced coding, visual analysis, and autonomous workflow capabilities

Audience

Developers, AI agent builders, software engineering teams, research teams, enterprise AI groups, data teams, product teams, and organizations that need long-context reasoning, multimodal understanding, structured output, tool calling, coding support, and OpenAI-compatible API access

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$3 per 1M tokens (input)
Kimi K3 is priced per 1 million tokens:

Cached input: $0.30
Uncached input: $3.00
Output: $15.00
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens

Cached inputs cost 90% less than uncached inputs, while generated output is the most expensive token category. Prices exclude applicable taxes, which are calculated based on the customer’s jurisdiction.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • What makes it exciting is that it seems built for the exact workloads developers care about right now: long-horizon coding, complex reasoning, big-context analysis, and agentic workflows. A million-token context window is especially useful if you want to drop in a large repo, long spec, research corpus, or messy project history and have the model reason across it.

Cons

  • I would treat it as something exciting to test, not something to blindly trust with sensitive work. Even the independent Ox Alpha site warns that messages are processed by the upstream model API, so I would keep secrets, private code, and customer data out of it until there is a clearer owner, model card, privacy policy, and production story.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Kimi K3 looks seriously exciting from the perspective of a developer and AI agent builder. The 1M-token context window is the kind of thing that actually matters when you are working with large repos, long docs, product specs, logs, and messy multi-step agent workflows. I also like that Kimi is positioning it around long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, not just generic chat. The native visual understanding, tool calling support, and deep reasoning focus make it feel like a model built for agents that need to read, plan, inspect, code, and iterate across a real workflow. The 2.8T-parameter scale is also hard to ignore. If the real-world performance matches the positioning, Kimi K3 could be a very strong option for developers who want frontier-level capability with long context and multimodal inputs in the same stack.

Cons

  • It is still new, so I would want to test it heavily before depending on it for production agents. Big context windows are useful, but they do not automatically guarantee perfect repo understanding, reliable tool use, or consistent long-running execution.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2019
China
z.ai

Company Information

Moonshot AI
Founded: 2023
China
kimi.ai

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Integrations

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
Hermes Agent
OpenClaw
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
Pi Agent
APIFree
AiAssistWorks
C#
Clarifai
Cline
Cosmos
Fireworks AI
Odysseus
Okara
SQL
XML
YAML
Z.ai
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