THE TICKER · MOONSHOT AI · CHECKED DAILY · LAST CHANGE 2026-10-29
KIMI K3 API PRICING
What Moonshot AI charges for Kimi K3, in USD, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Effective price — if there's a promo running, this is the promo.
NOTE: On sale since July 2026. Same cache scheme as K3.1 Pro (5-minute writes at 1x input, 1-hour writes at 2x, reads at 0.1x), but K3.1 Pro costs a third less on every line.
WHAT THINGS ACTUALLY COST ON KIMI K3
| Scenario | Tokens in / out | 1 run | 1,000 runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| A typical prompt (300 tokens in) | 300 / ~900 | $0.01 | $14.40 |
| A 20-turn conversation (context re-sent) | 4,000 / ~4,000 | $0.07 | $72.00 |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | 8,000 / ~3,200 | $0.07 | $72.00 |
| One agent run (tools, retries, thinking) | 2,000 / ~12,000 | $0.19 | $186.00 |
| A code review request | 1,500 / ~3,750 | $0.06 | $60.75 |
Output sizes assume the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator (3x for prompts, 6x for agent runs). Estimates, not invoices.
VS. THE REST OF THE BOARD
“Same job” = a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply, priced on both models. Cheaper is not always better. It is, however, always cheaper.
PRICE HISTORY
Kimi K3 joins the board at $3.00 in / $15.00 out per MTok. Moonshot is retiring the K2 series by the end of December, and K3.1 Pro, its newer sibling, costs a third less on every line.
Source: platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat · price last confirmed against the daily source on 2026-10-29. The full changelog lives at /pricing/changes.
NOW FIND OUT HOW MUCH OF THAT IS WASTE
Kimi K3's price is fixed. Your token count isn't. Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Kimi K3 — and how much a leaner version would save at 1,000 runs. Or pull the whole board from the ticker.