Kimi K3

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI
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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.

About

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
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Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
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Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

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

Audience

Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

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 Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.15/1M input tokens
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

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

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

Cons

  • The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial tasks.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Moonshot AI
Founded: 2023
China
kimi.ai

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

Alternatives

Alternatives

Kimi K2

Kimi K2

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MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI
MiniMax

MiniMax

MiniMax AI

Categories

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Foundation Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Integrations

APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
C++ Supported
CSS Supported
Kubernetes Supported
Tailwind CSS Supported

Integrations

APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
OpenTag Supported
Pi Agent Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
C++ Not Supported
CSS Not Supported
Kubernetes Not Supported
Tailwind CSS Not Supported
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