Kimi K3.1 Pro

Language Moonshot AI Partly verified Released Oct 23, 2026
  • In Input modalities: TextImageVideo Out Output modalities: Text
  • Reasoning· low, high, max
  • Tool use
  • Structured output
  • Open weights

Prices

8 offerings · prices as listed
Moonshot AI Platform (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
5-minute cache1-hour cache
Standard $2.00$0.20$2.00$4.00$10.00

Prices from Moonshot AI platform pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)

Moonshot AI Platform (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readCache writeOutput
5-minute cache1-hour cache
Standard ¥13.00¥1.30¥13.00¥26.00¥68.00

Prices from Kimi API 开放平台:模型推理价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)

Volcengine Ark (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readOutput
Standard ¥13.00¥1.30¥68.00

Prices from 火山方舟:模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Available on this channel since Oct 24, 2026 China · CNY kimi/kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard ¥13.00¥68.00

Prices from 阿里云百炼:模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 4, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Available on this channel since Oct 24, 2026 China · CNY kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensOutput
Standard ¥68.00

Prices from 阿里云百炼:模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 4, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official Global · USD Context: 1MReasoning: YesTool use: YesStructured output: Yes kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readOutput
Standard $1.837$0.184$9.611

Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 6, 2026)

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official US · International · USD Context: 1MReasoning: YesTool use: YesStructured output: Yes kimi-k3.1-pro
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputCache readOutput
Standard $2.00$0.20$10.00

Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 6, 2026)

Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).

Details

Family
kimi-k-pro
Model ID

Not stated on Moonshot AI’s pages: max input, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, knowledge cutoff, licence, aliases.

Run locally

Weights: moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
  • Parameters 2.78T
  • Active not stated · 896 experts, 16 per token
  • Native precision BF16
  • Layers 93
  • KV cache per token 105 KB
  • Config positions 1024K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
  • API context 977K (maker’s API)
My hardware GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB · 1008 GB/s · 64 GB DDR5 dual channel · 89.6 GB/s
On your hardware · GeForce RTX 4090
Doesn’t fit IQ4_XS (automatic) 8K context
WeightsKV cacheOverheadUsable
Needs
≈ 1445.1 GB (weights 1375.5 + KV cache 0.8 + overhead 68.8)
Usable
21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
Try
it’s too large for this hardware; see the smallest that runs it below
PrecisionWeightsNeeds at 8KOn your hardwareLongest context
BF16 (native)maker’s file1454.1 GB≈ 1527.6Doesn’t fit—
Q8_02751.0 GB≈ 2889.4Doesn’t fit—
FP82589.2 GB≈ 2719.5Doesn’t fit—
Q6_K2126.4 GB≈ 2233.5Doesn’t fit—
Q5_K_M1841.6 GB≈ 1934.4Doesn’t fit—
Q5_01780.1 GB≈ 1869.9Doesn’t fit—
Q4_K_M1572.9 GB≈ 1652.4Doesn’t fit—
Q4_01456.4 GB≈ 1530.1Doesn’t fit—
IQ4_XS1375.5 GB≈ 1445.1Doesn’t fit—
Q3_K_Mquality drops1265.5 GB≈ 1329.6Doesn’t fit—
IQ3_XXSquality drops990.4 GB≈ 1040.7Doesn’t fit—
Q2_Kquality drops970.9 GB≈ 1020.3Doesn’t fit—
IQ2_XXSquality drops666.7 GB≈ 700.9Doesn’t fit—

Click a row to choose a precision. “Maker’s file” sizes are the maker’s own files; others are parameters × bits per weight.

Compared with other hardware

Each at the highest precision it runs. Click one for details.

Smallest that runs it (Q4_K_M, 8K): no single listed machine; about 23 × 80 GB GPUs.

Run commands

The maker publishes no files at this precision. Choose its native precision or one of its own builds, or quantise it yourself with llama.cpp.

Memory to fine-tune
Full≈ 41431.6 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
LoRA≈ 5184.4 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
QLoRA≈ 1462.4 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware

Batch 1, 2,048-token sequences, gradient checkpointing; LoRA and QLoRA train rank-16 adapters on the attention projections.

Estimates; facts from the maker’s Hugging Face repositories, as of 2026-11-11. How it’s estimated

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 2,173

    #2 of 94 listed models

  • EQ-Bench Longform Writing 79.9

    #16 of 92 listed models

  • LMArena WebDev 1,687

    #9 of 94 listed models · max effort · CI 1,677–1,697 · 4,651 votes

  • EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 28, 2026
  • LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
  • changes we made

Included in coding plans

All coding plans →

  • Oct 31, 2026Capability Moonshot AI adds Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3 to Batch API Batch API now supports kimi-k3.1-pro and kimi-k3 on both the CN and Global platforms. Batch inference costs 60% of standard rates; these models also incur Cache Write fees, and cache hits are best-effort.
  • Oct 23, 2026Release Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro models Kimi K3.1 Pro and Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed are available today through the Kimi API and Kimi products. K3.1 Pro has a 1-million-token context window; full weights are scheduled for release by Nov. 4, 2026.
  1. 2 new prices on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, International Input $2.00 · Cache read $0.20
  2. 2 new prices on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, US Input $2.00 · Cache read $0.20
  3. 2 new prices on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Input $1.837 · Cache read $0.184
  4. Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, International Output $10.00
  5. Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, US Output $10.00
  6. Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Output $9.611
  7. Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, China Output ¥68.00
  8. Now priced on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, China Input ¥13.00 · Output ¥68.00
  9. Now priced on Volcengine Ark, China Input ¥13.00 · Cache read ¥1.30 · Output ¥68.00
  10. New language model

Sources

Moonshot AI’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

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Moonshot AI · China · moonshot.ai

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