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Kimi K3 redraws the model map with a 1M-token context window
Moonshot AI has moved its flagship to a 2.8-trillion-parameter, native-vision model built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.
Kimi Code now has two distinct lanes: K3 and K2.7 Code
The coding product now separates frontier reasoning from a focused coding model and a high-speed variant.
K3 API pricing makes cache behavior part of the architecture
The headline prices are $0.30 cached input, $3 cache-miss input, and $15 output per million tokens.
The K2 migration window is closing faster than the model names suggest
The original K2 API series is already retired, while K2.5 and Moonshot V1 access changes are now tied to the K3 rollout.
K2.6 made long-horizon coding the center of Kimi's story
The April release established the coding, design, and agent-swarm direction that K3 now extends.