kimi-k3 API pricing

Current price

CNY per million tokens.

Input (cache miss)	20
Input (cache hit)	2
Output	100

Official price page ↗

What it costs

At the prices above, with no cache hits.

10M input and 2M output tokens a month	400 CNY
100M input and 20M output tokens a month	4,000 CNY
1000M input and 200M output tokens a month	40,000 CNY

A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about ¥0.09; ten thousand such calls cost about ¥900.

For your own usage: API cost calculator

Where it ranks

Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, kimi-k3 is number 11 of 11 models.

1. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash	136 CNY / month
2. DeepSeek deepseek-flash	270 CNY / month
3. Qwen qwen3.7-plus	360 CNY / month
4. MiniMax MiniMax-M3	378 CNY / month
5. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7	378 CNY / month
6. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro	1,080 CNY / month
7. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code	1,190 CNY / month
8. Kimi kimi-k2.6	1,190 CNY / month
9. Zhipu GLM-5.3	1,360 CNY / month
10. Qwen qwen3.8-max	1,920 CNY / month
11. Kimi kimi-k3	4,000 CNY / month

Other Kimi models

• kimi-k2.7-code: ¥6.5 input, ¥27 output
• kimi-k2.6: ¥6.5 input, ¥27 output

Kimi against other vendors

• DeepSeek vs Kimi
• Kimi vs Qwen
• Kimi vs Zhipu
• Kimi vs MiniMax

Kimi price changes

1. 2026-07-16

   Kimi K3 launched (≈2.8T parameters, 1M-token context). International list price: $3 input / $15 output per million tokens (our Aug 27 issue). The China site now lists ¥20 input / ¥100 output. source · our coverage

2. 2026-09-30

   Kimi K3.1 appeared on the API platform; the official price page does not list it yet. source · our coverage