Kimi K3
by Moonshotai
Kimi K3 is an ultra-large-scale, open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and i
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Kimi K3
Added 16 July 2026
Overview
Kimi K3 is an ultra-large-scale, open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at navigating...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `moonshotai/kimi-k3`.
- openrouter ·
moonshotai/kimi-k3Docs
OpenRouter id: moonshotai/kimi-k3
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 57.1 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 76.2 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 50.1 index
- Design Arena python-pptxslides (other) : 1289 elo · #4
- Design Arena webapps (other) : 1331 elo · #1
- Design Arena 3d (other) : 1453 elo · #1
- Design Arena dataviz (other) : 1379 elo · #1
Notes
Kimi K3 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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