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Kimi K3 API: how to get a key, what it costs per 1M tokens, and whether it's free

The Kimi API is pay as you go from Moonshot's own platform, and Kimi K3 unlocks after a $1 top-up; we found no free tier, only a $5 voucher once you have added $5. Here are Moonshot's real per-million-token prices, the same-model price on Novita AI, and why running K3 yourself is not a realistic option.

Aliteq Team · 1d ago · 11 min

Rows of Nvidia data center GPU servers, representing the AI infrastructure spending Kimi K3's release rattled

China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Aliteq Team · Aug 1 · 7 min

China's Kimi K3 was reportedly trained on smuggled NVIDIA Blackwell chips — around both countries' controls

Moonshot AI's frontier model, the biggest open-weight model ever, was allegedly trained on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware acquired around both US export controls and China's own import restrictions. The compute-smuggling story behind the model.

Aliteq Team · Jul 30 · 9 min

Kimi K3 hardware requirements: the open weights are 1.56 TB, and here's what that means for your GPU

Moonshot's Kimi K3 is open to download. It is also 2.8 trillion parameters in 1.56 TB of MXFP4 files, and the smallest community quant is 509 GB. The real memory math, what vLLM says you need, and what to run at home instead.

Aliteq Team · Jul 23 · 8 min

Kimi's official web interface showing the K3 Max model selector

China's Kimi K3 keeps calling itself 'Claude.' that's not the smoking gun everyone thinks it is

screenshots of Moonshot's new model introducing itself as 'Claude, made by Anthropic' are everywhere. it's real, and it's a genuine clue — but on its own it proves way less than people think. here's the actual picture.

Aliteq Team · Jul 19 · 6 min

China just dropped an AI model that beats Claude. good luck running it — 8 GPUs isn't even close

Moonshot's new open-weight model is the biggest ever made, and it's genuinely good. it's also flat-out impossible to run at home — and the reason why is a lesson in how GPUs actually work.

Aliteq Team · Jul 18 · 5 min