# ⚡️ RELEASE: KIMI K3

*Published on: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:56:24 GMT*

⚡️ RELEASE: KIMI K3

Moonshot just dropped its new flagship: 2.8T parameters, a 1M-token context window, native vision, and a focus on large projects, coding, games, and 3D. Full weights are expected in the next few days.

API: $3 / $15 per million input/output tokens. Pricing-wise, that puts it around Sonnet 5 or GPT-5.6 Terra, while Moonshot’s own benchmarks have it taking shots at Opus 4.8 and Sol.

So basically: Opus-class performance at Sonnet pricing. You can already try it for free on the Kimi website or through Kimi Code CLI.

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