Moonshot · Open weights
Kimi K3 TEE
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's open-weight, always-thinking multimodal model for long-context reasoning, coding, tool use, and native image understanding. Running inside a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), with provider attestation support.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $3.00
- Output
- $15.00
- Cache read
- $1.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.1K tokens
- Longer than 75% of 473 models
Side by side
Kimi K3 TEE compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Kimi K3 TEEMoonshotThis model | Kimi K3MoonshotRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot | Moonshot |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jul 31, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 65.54K | — |
| Average output | 1.1K tokens | 1.1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $3.00 | $1.20Best |
| Output | $15.00 | $5.50Best |
| Cache read | $1.50 | $0.20Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 87.4 tok/s | 194.8 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 3.2 sBest | 4.0 s |
| Request success (24h) | 98.0% | 99.9%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 43.6 | 43.6 |
| Coding Index | 76.2 | 76.2 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, high, max | low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
Intelligence Index
- Kimi K3 TEE43.6
- Kimi K343.6
Kimi K3 TEE tested at max reasoning effort
Kimi K3 TEE: Better than 89% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Kimi K3 TEE: 76.2Top
- Kimi K3: 76.2Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Kimi K3 TEE: 58.3%Top
- Kimi K3: 58.3%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Kimi K3 TEE: 24.8%Top
- Kimi K3: 24.8%Top
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- Kimi K3 TEE: 5.3%Top
- Kimi K3: 5.3%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Kimi K3 TEE: 1,499 EloTop
- Kimi K3: 1,499 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Kimi K3 TEE: 1,534 EloTop
- Kimi K3: 1,534 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Kimi K3 TEE: 22.0%Top
- Kimi K3: 22.0%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Kimi K3 TEE: 88.7%Top
- Kimi K3: 88.7%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Kimi K3 TEE: 21.7%Top
- Kimi K3: 21.7%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Kimi K3 TEE: 46.9%Top
- Kimi K3: 46.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Kimi K3 TEE: 93.5%Top
- Kimi K3: 93.5%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Kimi K3 TEE: 12.6%Top
- Kimi K3: 12.6%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Kimi K3 TEE: 59.5%Top
- Kimi K3: 59.5%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Kimi K3 TEE: 88.7%Top
- Kimi K3: 88.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Kimi K3 TEE was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #3 · 59.6% |
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #11 · 32.3% |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #8 · 28.6% |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #17 · 3.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1487.4 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1539.1 |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1498.7 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1502.5 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1489.1 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1516.1 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1541.5 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1494.4 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1501.3 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1532.0 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1506.9 |
| German | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1507.5 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1517.3 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1487.1 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1460.7 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1509.2 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1523.8 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1507.6 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1513.3 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1522.9 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1475.5 |
| Japanese | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1510.6 |
| Korean | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1472.4 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1501.8 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1476.3 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1495.6 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1482.0 |
| WebDev Overall | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1654.9 |
| WebDev · Webdev | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1654.9 |
| WebDev · Webdev-html | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1642.2 |
| WebDev · Webdev-react | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1669.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #15 · 44.2% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #15 · 58.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #18 · 157.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 94.5% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1318 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #5 · 2084 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #18 · 79.6 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Kimi K3 TEE
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi K3 TEE | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1361 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1335 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1339 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1350 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1301 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1384 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1218 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1295 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1315 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1254 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1267 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 87.4 tok/s
- Faster than 57% of 256 models
- Time to first token
- 3.2 s
- Quicker than 48% of 256 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 83.6%
- About $1.75 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 98.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "TEE/kimi-k3",
"reasoning_effort": "low",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="TEE/kimi-k3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Moonshot
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