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Kimi K3 API

Moonshot's long-context specialist: 256K tokens for whole-repo review, contract analysis and agentic loops — at roughly half of official pricing.

SpecificationValue
Input / output price$1.50 / $3.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input$0.15 per 1M tokens
Context window256K tokens
Max output16,384 tokens
StrengthsLong context, agents
Official Kimi K3 pricing is ¥20 input / ¥100 output (≈$2.82 / $14.08) per Tencent Cloud billing docs, August 2026. Bridge prices are flat — see the Kimi API guide.

Why developers pick it

Code example

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://bridge.computeindex.net/v1", api_key="sk-bridge-YOUR_KEY")

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="kimi-k3",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You summarize long legal documents."},
        {"role": "user", "content": open("contract.txt").read()},
    ],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

FAQ

Is this the same Kimi K3 as Moonshot's official? Yes — the same model, served through the Bridge OpenAI-compatible gateway.

Can I stream responses? Yes — standard SSE streaming with stream_options.include_usage supported.

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