Kimi K3 API Pricing & Cost Calculator
Kimi K3 is the value-frontier pick: cheaper than Claude Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol, smarter than the workhorse tier. Pair its 90% cache discount with long-context agentic workflows for the best economics.
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's frontier reasoning model, sitting just behind Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the smartness tier but significantly cheaper per token.
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Cost Comparison
Based on 100,000 input tokens (50% cached), 5,000 output tokens, and 100 requests.
How this is calculated
Kimi K3 is priced at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, with a 90% prompt caching discount ($0.30 per million). That puts it between Claude Sonnet 5 ($2/$10) and Claude Opus 5 ($5/$25), positioning it as the value-frontier pick.
Verdict
Kimi K3 is the value-frontier pick: cheaper than Claude Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol, smarter than the workhorse tier. Pair its 90% cache discount with long-context agentic workflows for the best economics.
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