Kimi K3

Kimi K3 (July 2026) is Moonshot AI's most capable model and the world's first open 3T-class model — a 2.8T-parameter model with native vision and a 1M-token context, built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning. It went viral for matching (and sometimes beating) top US models like GPT and Claude, essentially for free.

Best for

• Frontier reasoning, coding and knowledge work at open-model prices
• Long-horizon agentic tasks (max thinking effort by default)
• Whole-repo / long-document work (1M context, native vision)
• When you want frontier quality without frontier cost

How it compares — and the India angle

• The story of 2026: a Chinese open model rivalling GPT/Claude for free — Moonshot had to suspend new subscriptions when demand overwhelmed capacity, and the US raised distillation concerns.
• For India: extremely cheap API ($0.30 cache-hit / $3 cache-miss input, $15 output per 1M) and open weights (from 27 July) make frontier AI accessible to startups and researchers.
• Available on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API — a genuine open alternative to closed frontier models.