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Kimi

Kimi is Moonshot AI's assistant for coding and knowledge work. The current official release is Kimi K3; the older K2.6 catalog note remains historical.

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Website

tool · Sources verified · Checked 2026-10-04

Overview

Kimi is Moonshot AI's assistant for coding and knowledge work. The current official release is Kimi K3; the older K2.6 catalog note remains historical.[1]

Use cases

  • Work on long coding tasks, visual software development and document-based knowledge work.[1]

Features

  • K3 includes native vision, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals.[1]

Limitations

  • The vendor warns that missing thinking history or switching models mid-session can make K3 unstable. It can also act too proactively without explicit task boundaries.[1]

Access and availability

  • K3 is offered in the website, mobile apps, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the API. Product subscriptions and API billing are separate.[1]

Pricing

  • The release quotes USD per million API tokens: $0.30 cached input, $3 uncached input and $15 output. Check current billing documentation before use.[1][2]

Specifications

Verified 2026-10-04. Versions and access terms can change.

K3 architecture / context2.8 trillion total parameters; MoE activation selects 16 of 896 experts; 1M-token context[1]
Self-hosting guidanceThe vendor recommends supernode deployments with at least 64 accelerators; this is not a laptop model.[1]

Public user feedback

Attributed external experiences. These are separate from verified specifications and vendor claims.

Subscription usage report

responsitamer reported using the lowest subscription tier and exhausting a five-hour allowance after one K3 command. The workload was not described, so this does not establish a universal quota.

u/responsitamer · Reddit · r/kimi · Publication date unavailable · Checked 2026-10-04

Mixed-model project workflow

Unfair_Tangerine_217 described completing a project with K3 for planning, K3-256K for complex implementation and K2.7 for other tasks. They reported enough usage on Allegro except when deliberately consuming the remaining quota.

u/Unfair_Tangerine_217 · Reddit · r/kimi · Publication date unavailable · Checked 2026-10-04

Links

WebsiteRedditDiscordGitHub

Sources and evidence gaps

  1. Kimi K3 official release, architecture, access and limitationsofficial · checked 2026-10-04
  2. Kimi API billing guidancedocumentation · checked 2026-10-04
  • The discussion exposed relative timestamps only; exact publication dates could not be verified.
  • Current Malaysian subscription pricing and the model weights' exact license were not verified.