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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

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Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter 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...

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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 usage over time

OpenRouter share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 holds 1.88% today, up from 0.75% at the start of the visible window.

Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/moonshotai-kimi-k3-20260715

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/moonshotai-kimi-k3-20260715

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: OpenRouter as of 2026-09-01 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/moonshotai-kimi-k3-20260715

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-01, MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 holds 1.9% of OpenRouter token share, down 0.54pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (OpenRouter).

Cost per session

Median dollars spent on one MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 session, by coding agent and session length.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.

Agent1 turn2–9 turns10–49 turns50+ turns
Claude Code$0.073$0.164$1.06$6.34
Kilo Code$0.052$0.233$1.05$5.77
Hermes Agent$0.055$0.160$0.829$4.69
Codex$0.029

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Data: OpenRouter session-cost dataset as of 2026-08-30 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/moonshotai-kimi-k3-20260715

Where to run it

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 is served by 18 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $12.75 per million tokens from Makora, and the most expensive is $22.50 from Morph · 1049k. The largest context window offered is 1049k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
Makora$2.55$12.751049k99.38%
Wafer$3.00$12.751049k100.00%
Sail Research$2.60$13.00975k98.31%
Morph · 1049k$2.80$14.001049k100.00%
DeepInfra$2.85$14.251049k92.74%
DigitalOcean$2.85$14.251049k99.91%
Phala$3.00$15.001049k96.60%
Chutes$3.00$15.001049k99.54%
Parasail$3.00$15.001049k96.90%
Modal$3.00$15.001049k99.98%
Together$3.00$15.001049k99.98%
Fireworks · 1049k$3.00$15.001049k99.86%
BaseTen$3.00$15.001049k90.21%
Moonshot AI$3.00$15.001049k99.90%
Fireworks · 1049k$3.30$16.501049k99.54%
Alibaba$3.45$17.251049k88.68%
Fireworks · 1049k$4.50$22.501049k93.55%
Morph · 1049k$6.00$22.501049k100.00%