Moonshot AI

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at...

ReasoningTool callingVisionStreamingJSON mode
1.05M token context Released Jul 16, 2026

Intelligence overview

0
Intelligence
0
Coding
0
Agentic

1.05M tok

Context window

943.7K tok

Max output

Capabilities

What MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 can do.

Reasoning

Extended reasoning

Works through problems step by step before answering, trading latency for accuracy on harder tasks.

Adjustable effort

Choose how much the model deliberates per request — trade speed for depth as the task demands.

Multimodal

Image understanding

Reads and reasons over images alongside text in the same prompt.

Video input

Takes video as an input modality alongside text and images.

Development

Tool calling

Calls external functions mid-response, then continues reasoning from the result.

Structured output

Returns responses constrained to a JSON schema, ready to parse without cleanup.

Streaming

Streams tokens as they're generated instead of waiting on the full response.

Performance

Intelligence43.8
Artificial Analysis
Coding76.2
Artificial Analysis
Agentic50.6
Artificial Analysis

Design Arena — ranked #1 across 15 categories

Pricing

Pay for what you use.

Every model in UltraGPT runs behind one flat subscription — this is the underlying per-token cost the catalog tracks.

INPUT

$2.65 / 1M tok

OUTPUT

$13.28 / 1M tok

Cache read$0.303 / 1M tok
Use cases

Built for serious work.

Build

Generate and refactor code, with the ability to run and verify tool calls and return structured, parseable output.

Think

Works through hard problems with adjustable reasoning effort — max, high, low.

Research

Holds up to 1.05M tokens of source material in context without losing the thread.

Create

Reads images alongside a prompt to ground creative and design work in what's actually on screen.

Automate

Chains tool calls across multi-step workflows, reasoning between each one.

Preview

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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 Ready

Continues in the UltraGPT app — one login, every model.

Comparison

How MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 stacks up.

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Specification

Technical details.

Specification

Context window
1.05M tokens
Max output
943.7K tokens
Input modalities
Text + Image + Video
Output modalities
Text
Release date
Jul 16, 2026
Reasoning effort
max, high, low
Streaming
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
JSON mode
Supported

Model identity

Provider
Moonshot AI
Provider ID
moonshotai

Model ID

Reasoning

Effort: max, high, low
Directory

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