Moonshot AI
Kimi K3: price, context window and ranking
As of 18 October 2026, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI costs $0.304 per million input tokens and $11.936 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, with a context window of 1.05M tokens. On the LMArena text leaderboard it ranks 25 with a score of 1,474.7. It is number 16 on OpenRouter by usage, with 1.3% of tokens in the past 7 days.
- Input price
- $0.304
- Output price
- $11.936
- Context window
- 1.05M
- LMArena score
- 1,474.7
- Usage share, 7 days
- 1.3%
- Providers
- 26
per 1M tokens
per 1M tokens
tokens
rank 25
rank 16
uptime 97.4%
Specifications
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI |
| Input price per 1M tokens | $0.304 |
| Output price per 1M tokens | $11.936 |
| Blended price per 1M tokens (3:1) | $3.212 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 |
| Providers serving it | 26 |
| Average uptime, past day | 97.4% |
| LMArena | 1,474.7 (rank 25) |
| Arena score per dollar | 459.1 |
| Usage share, 7 days | 1.3% (rank 16) |
| Added to OpenRouter | 2026-07-16 |
| Modality | text+image+video->text |
| OpenRouter model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k3 |
Price history
- Input
- Output
| Date | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | $0.304 | $12.533 |
| 2026-10-17 | $0.304 | $11.936 |
| 2026-10-18 | $0.304 | $11.936 |
Usage rank history
- Usage rank
| Date | Usage rank |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | 16 |
| 2026-10-17 | 16 |
| 2026-10-18 | 16 |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Kimi K3 cost per million tokens?
Kimi K3 costs $0.304 per million input tokens and $11.936 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, as of 18 October 2026. At a mix of three parts input to one part output the blended price is $3.212 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 has a context window of 1.05M tokens (1,048,576 exactly).
How does Kimi K3 rank on LMArena?
Kimi K3 is ranked 25 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a score of 1,474.7 from 32,795 votes. The listing used is "Kimi K3 (Max)".
When was Kimi K3 released?
OpenRouter lists Kimi K3 as added on 16 July 2026.
Who provides Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 is served by 26 providers on OpenRouter, with average uptime of 97.4% over the past day.
Methodology and sources
The catalogue, prices, context lengths and provider counts come from OpenRouter's public Models API. They are fetched every day at 06:00 Istanbul time and stored as a daily snapshot. Weekly changes are calculated by Oesnada by comparing those snapshots; there is no data before 16 October 2026.
Usage shares are calculated from the daily token totals of OpenRouter's Data API: a model's tokens over the past 7 days divided by all tokens in the same period, including the aggregated long tail outside the top 50. Token counts come from each provider's own tokenizer and are not directly comparable across providers. The data is published by OpenRouter under CC BY 4.0. Variants such as ":free" are counted separately, so shares here can differ from OpenRouter's own ranking page.
Quality rankings come from LMArena's text (overall) leaderboard. A model is matched only when its name matches exactly; if a model has several listings, the highest-scoring one is used. "Frontier" means a model in the LMArena top 15.
"Best value" divides the LMArena score by the blended price (three parts input to one part output). Arena scores are not a linear scale, so the ratio is a rough guide. This page is produced automatically.
- OpenRouter Models API
- OpenRouter Rankings (Data API) (CC BY 4.0)
- LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC BY 4.0)
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Oesnada, "Kimi K3: price, context window and ranking", https://oesnada.com/ai-models/moonshotai-kimi-k3, accessed 18 October 2026.