Moonshot · Frontier
Kimi Latest
Always points to the newest recommended Kimi model, currently Kimi K3.1 Pro. Reasoning is always enabled. Select Kimi K3 explicitly to retain its checkpoint and pricing; K3.1 Pro Highspeed is available separately.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $10.00
- Cache read
- $0.20
- Cache write
- $2.00
- $4.00 for a 1-hour cache
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- —
Side by side
Kimi Latest compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Kimi LatestMoonshotThis model | Kimi K3MoonshotRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot | Moonshot |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Open weights |
| Added | May 3, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Average output | — | 1.1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $1.20Best |
| Output | $10.00 | $5.50Best |
| Cache read | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Cache write | $2.00 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 59.7 tok/s | 151.2 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 5.6 s | 2.9 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 83.5% | 99.9%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 55.1Best | 43.6 |
| Coding Index | — | 76.2 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
Intelligence Index
- Kimi Latest55.1
- Kimi K343.6
Kimi Latest: Better than 99% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Kimi Latest: —
- Kimi K3: 76.2
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Kimi Latest: 73.3%Top
- Kimi K3: 58.3%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Kimi Latest: 46.0%Top
- Kimi K3: 24.8%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- Kimi Latest: —
- Kimi K3: 5.3%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Kimi Latest: 1,678 EloTop
- Kimi K3: 1,499 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Kimi Latest: 1,846 EloTop
- Kimi K3: 1,534 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Kimi Latest: 31.4%Top
- Kimi K3: 22.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Kimi Latest: 86.3%
- Kimi K3: 88.7%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Kimi Latest: —
- Kimi K3: 21.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Kimi Latest: 52.5%Top
- Kimi K3: 46.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Kimi Latest: —
- Kimi K3: 93.5%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Kimi Latest: 67.2%Top
- Kimi K3: 12.6%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Kimi Latest: 60.8%Top
- Kimi K3: 59.5%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Kimi Latest: 86.3%
- Kimi K3: 88.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Kimi Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | 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 Latest
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | Kimi Latest | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1360 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1335 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1339 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1351 |
| 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 · 1255 |
| 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
- 59.7 tok/s
- Faster than 41% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 5.6 s
- Quicker than 29% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 96.7%
- About $0.26 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 83.5%
- Unstable
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": "moonshotai/kimi-latest",
"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="moonshotai/kimi-latest",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Moonshot
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