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Kimi K3: Datenblatt, API-Preise und Daten

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Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Open weights (downloadable)
Yes

You use it and pay per use through the vendor's API, per million tokens: there is no shop. The list prices are in the data sheet below.

Official page: huggingface.co ↗

Data sheet · Kimi K3

Every figure is quoted from the vendor's official page, with the date we read it. If a row is missing, the source does not state it and we do not estimate it.

Memory and answer length

Context window
1,048,576 tokensRank 5 of 21
What it means and the source

How much text the model keeps in view in a single request, question and answer included. It matters for long documents and whole code projects. A token is a fragment of a word.

huggingface.coOpens the source in a new tab Oct 23, 2026

Knowledge and abilities

Reads images
Yes13 models out of 23
What it means and the source

The model can take images (photos, screenshots, charts) as well as text.

huggingface.coOpens the source in a new tab Oct 23, 2026

Size and openness

Parameters
2.8 trillion
What it means and the source

The size of the network: how many billions of learned values make it up. Bigger does not necessarily mean better, but it tells how much hardware it takes to run it yourself.

huggingface.coOpens the source in a new tab Oct 23, 2026
Active parameters per token
104 billion
What it means and the source

In «mixture of experts» models only part of the network works on each word: these are the parameters actually used for each token, and they matter for speed and running costs.

huggingface.coOpens the source in a new tab Oct 23, 2026
Open weights (downloadable)
Yes7 models out of 23
What it means and the source

The model's weights can be downloaded: you can run it on your own servers, adapt it and decide where the data stays, within the licence terms.

huggingface.coOpens the source in a new tab Oct 23, 2026

Where it stands · Kimi K3

The same verified figures, next to those of the other catalogue models. Tap a model for the head-to-head.

Context windowRank 5 of 21 · higher is better
  1. 1GPT-5.6 Sol1.05M tokens
  2. 1GPT-6 Astra1.05M tokens
  3. 1GPT-6 Luna1.05M tokens
  4. 1GPT-6.1 Sol1.05M tokens
  5. 5Kimi K31,048,576 tokens
  6. 5Gemini 3.8 Flash1,048,576 tokens

Hardware to try AI at home

Kimi K3: just holding the weights in memory takes about 5,600 GB at 16-bit, 2,800 GB at 8-bit, 1,400 GB at 4-bit. Beyond 24 GB it is not a home-PC job: using it through an API makes more sense.Worked out from the billions of parameters the vendor states, not a measurement: context and the runtime need more memory.

Questions and answers

Kimi K3: how much text can it read at once?

The context window is 1,048,576 tokens.

Kimi K3: can I run it on my own computer?

Yes, the vendor publishes the model's weights. Parameters: 2.8 trillion. Holding them in memory takes about 1,400 GB at 4-bit; context and the runtime need more memory.

Kurz gefasst

Bei Moonshot AI Kimi K3 ist Kontextfenster der Wert, auf den es ankommt: 1048576. Ich habe sie von Moonshot AI – model card (Hugging Face) übernommen. Unter den 21, die ich geprüft habe, sind 4 besser. Die andere Zahl, auf die es ankommt, ist Aktive Parameter pro Token (Milliarden): 104B.

Die Zahlen zu Moonshot AI Kimi K3

Ich habe sie nach Gewicht geordnet, mit dem Wert und dem Platz unter den anderen, die ich geprüft habe.

Kontextfenster: 1048576. Platz 5 von 21, die ich verglichen habe.

Aktive Parameter pro Token (Milliarden): 104B. Das ist der beste Wert unter den 2, die ich verglichen habe.

Liest Bilder: 1. Das ist der beste Wert unter den 13, die ich verglichen habe.

Open weights (downloadable): 1. Das ist der beste Wert unter den 7, die ich verglichen habe.

Parameter (Milliarden): 2.8T. Das ist der beste Wert unter den 7, die ich verglichen habe.

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Für wen es sich lohnt

Nimm es, wenn Aktive Parameter pro Token (Milliarden) für dich Vorrang hat: 104B — keines der geprüften Modelle ist besser.

Es passt, wenn du Liest Bilder suchst: 1.

Sieh dich anderswo um, wenn dir Kontextfenster wichtig ist: hier sind es 1048576, und 4 Produkte sind besser.

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