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Kimi K3

MoonshotReleased 16 Jul 2026OpenDate verified
172161–183Index score#13 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 17 anchor tests
−13Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude Fable 5
$0.68/ $10Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

GPT-5.5 reached this score 3 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
93%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
72%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
51%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
60%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released16 Jul 2026
Announcementkimi.com ↗
Release entryKimi K3 (weights 07-27)
Scored asKimi K3
Artificial Analysis index44 · max
Output speed34 tokens/s

Moonshot releasesaround this one