Kimi K3 pricing.
prices as of · 81 providers · 100 prices
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Kimi K3 costs $3 in and $15 out per million tokens from Moonshot AI; the cheapest price we can explain is $6.20 at NanoGPT, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Moonshot AI list price
$24/M tokens
$3 in · $15 out
read · 576% above the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$6.20/M tokens
$2 in · $0.20 out · 74% under list
NanoGPTread
What it costs for your work
Moonshot AI list price
$2.70a month
cheapest we can explain · NanoGPT
$1.21a month
difference
$1.49saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Kimi K3
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Moonshot AI's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
Moonshot AIThe price Moonshot AI charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and we know why
18 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
$2 / $0.20in / out per M
0.26×of list price
CrofHosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
1M context hereCrof ↗$2 / $8in / out per M
0.58×of list price
- Crof
Serves the open weights at mxfp4, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
$2 / $8in / out per M
0.58×of list price
$2.06 / $10.29in / out per M
0.69×of list price
Inference.netHosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$2.10 / $10.95in / out per M
0.72×of list price
Nous PortalResells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
$2.10 / $10.95in / out per M
0.72×of list price
VancineHosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$2.40 / $12in / out per M
0.80×of list price
RelaceServes the open weights at fp4, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp4 precision$2.40 / $12in / out per M
0.80×of list price
MorphServes the open weights at fp8, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp8 precision$2.25 / $12.60in / out per M
0.81×of list price
MakoraHosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$2.55 / $12.75in / out per M
0.85×of list price
DigitalOcean GradientHosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$2.55 / $12.95in / out per M
0.86×of list price
$2.65 / $13.28in / out per M
0.88×of list price
Sail ResearchServes the open weights at fp4, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp4 precision$2.65 / $13.28in / out per M
0.88×of list price
- Wallaby
10% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
$2.70 / $13.50in / out per M
0.90×of list price
$2.70 / $13.50in / out per M
0.90×of list price
Merge Gateway3% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
$2.90 / $14in / out per M
0.95×of list price
$2.85 / $14.25in / out per M
0.95×of list price
$2.85 / $14.25in / out per M
0.95×of list price
Same price as the maker
73 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$3 / $12.50in / out per M
0.90×of list price
WaferThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $12.75in / out per M
0.91×of list price
TokenGoThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
VivgridThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
1M context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
- Ollama Cloud
The same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
NeuralwattThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
1M context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
- Neuralwatt
The same price Moonshot AI charges.
1M context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
AIHubMixThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
CoralBricksThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Hugging Face Inference ProvidersThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
1M context hereHugging Face Inference Providers ↗$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
CrossModelThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
- TensorX
The same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cloudflare AI GatewayThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
GitHub CopilotThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Jalapeno CloudThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Perplexity AgentThe same price Moonshot AI charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
showing the 25 cheapest of 73 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
4 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
KenariWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Berget AIWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
328k context hereBerget AI ↗$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
262k context hereFeatherless ↗$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
TinfoilWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
262k context hereTinfoil ↗$4 / $20in / out per M
1.33×of list price
Given away with limits
4 free tiers · never rankedThese providers give Kimi K3 away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.
SenseNova (China)
NVIDIA build- SCNet Token Plan
Volcengine Ark Coding Plan
Frequently asked
- Who sells Kimi K3 cheapest?
- NanoGPT, at $2 in and $0.20 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Routes to a host serving the open weights; precision not disclosed.
- Is Kimi K3 open weights?
- Yes. Moonshot AI publishes the weights, so anyone may host Kimi K3, which is why 81 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Kimi K3 hold?
- 1,048,576 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Kimi K3 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $24 per million tokens, Moonshot AI's price is 576% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.