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Kimi K3

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Description

Inkling 2 Small is a general-purpose multimodal AI model developed by Thinking Machines Lab for software engineering, advanced reasoning, visual analysis, and autonomous agent applications. The model features a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture containing 594 billion total parameters, with approximately 17 billion parameters activated during inference. Its one-million-token context window supports processing large documents, software repositories, extended conversations, and complex collections of information. Inkling 2 Small accepts text and image inputs and generates text outputs, enabling visual reasoning, programming assistance, document analysis, and multimodal problem-solving. Its agentic coding capabilities support autonomous software development, code debugging, repository modifications, application creation, and verification of completed engineering tasks. The model can also perform extended research workflows involving machine learning experimentation, GPU kernel optimization, data analysis, and iterative scientific problem-solving. Configurable reasoning effort allows users to balance response speed and computational resources against the complexity of individual tasks. Thinking Machines Lab reports benchmark scores of 25.4% on FrontierCode 2.0, 72.1% on DeepSWE 1.1, and 86.3% on SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard. Inkling 2 Small is available for inference and fine-tuning through Tinker, with model weights scheduled for release under the Apache 2.0 license after additional safety evaluations.

Description

Kimi K3 is a large-scale AI model from Moonshot AI designed for advanced reasoning, software engineering, visual understanding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. The model is built with 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention design created to support long-context intelligence. It also includes Attention Residuals and a native 1 million token context window, giving developers room to work with large files, repositories, documentation sets, transcripts, and enterprise knowledge bases. Kimi K3 always runs with thinking mode enabled and currently supports maximum reasoning effort by default. Developers can access the model through Moonshot’s OpenAI-compatible API using Python, cURL, and the OpenAI SDK. The API supports standard chat completions, streaming output, structured JSON Schema responses, partial continuation from a prefix, custom tool calling, required tool choice, and dynamic tool loading. Kimi K3 also supports vision inputs, including local images encoded as base64 and video files uploaded through the file API. Automatic context caching helps repeated long-prefix workflows become more efficient without requiring manual cache IDs or extra cache parameters. By combining long context, visual understanding, tool use, structured output, and advanced reasoning, Kimi K3 is built for developers creating sophisticated AI agents, coding systems, research tools, and enterprise applications.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

C No 
C++ No 
Claude Code No 
Claw Code No 
ClinePass No 
Command Code No 
Cosmos No 
Hermes Agent No 
Kimi Code No 
Kimi Work No 
Kotlin No 
Kubernetes No 
OpenClaw No 
OpenCode Zen No 
Rapid Claw No 
SiliconFlow No 
Tinker Yes 
Viktor No 
Visual Studio Code No 
YAML No 

Integrations

C Yes 
C++ Yes 
Claude Code Yes 
Claw Code Yes 
ClinePass Yes 
Command Code Yes 
Cosmos Yes 
Hermes Agent Yes 
Kimi Code Yes 
Kimi Work Yes 
Kotlin Yes 
Kubernetes Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
Rapid Claw Yes 
SiliconFlow Yes 
Tinker No 
Viktor Yes 
Visual Studio Code Yes 
YAML Yes 

Pricing Details

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$3 per 1M tokens (input)
Kimi K3 is priced per 1 million tokens:

Cached input: $0.30
Uncached input: $3.00
Output: $15.00
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens

Cached inputs cost 90% less than uncached inputs, while generated output is the most expensive token category. Prices exclude applicable taxes, which are calculated based on the customer’s jurisdiction.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Founded

2025

Country

United States

Website

thinkingmachines.ai/

Vendor Details

Company Name

Moonshot AI

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

kimi.ai

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