# Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is a language model from Moonshot AI with a 1M-token context window. Provider list price is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output; on Allocate you pay $3.21 and $16.05. The weights are open, so you can fine-tune it and own the result.

## Pricing

| | Provider list | On Allocate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input, per M tokens | $3 | $3.21 |
| Output, per M tokens | $15 | $16.05 |
| Cached input, per M tokens | $0.30 | $0.32 |

Prices checked 2026-07-21.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | Moonshot AI |
| Modality | Language |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| License | Not listed |
| Open weights | Yes |
| Fine-tunable | Yes, on your data |
| Catalog id | moonshotai/kimi-k3 |

## What a real workload costs

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each: 1,200M input and 350M output tokens. At list prices that is 1,200 × $3 + 350 × $15 = $8,850 a month. Billed on Allocate it is $9,470.

## Common questions

### How much does Kimi K3 cost per million tokens?

Provider list price is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. On Allocate you pay $3.21 in and $16.05 out.

### What context window does Kimi K3 have?

1,000,000 tokens (1M). At roughly 0.75 words per token, that is about 750k words of English text per request.

### What does cached input cost on Kimi K3?

$0.30 per million tokens at list ($0.32 billed). Repeated prompt prefixes, such as a stable system prompt or tool definitions, bill at this rate instead of the full input price.

### Can I fine-tune Kimi K3?

Yes. Kimi K3 is an open-weights model; check the lab’s model card for the exact license terms. Read the license terms before fine-tuning for commercial use. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

### How do I call Kimi K3 on Allocate?

Send moonshotai/kimi-k3 in the model field of the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.allocate.network/v1, or point a route name (like prod/support-agent) at it so you can swap the model later without a deploy.

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