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Kimi K3 vs O3

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
O3
openai/o3
Provider
Moonshot
OpenAI
Family
o-series
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,048,576 tok
200,000 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
100,000 tok
Released
2026-07-16
2026-05-22
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$3.00 /1M
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$15.00 /1M
$8.00 /1M
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
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Kimi K3 is Moonshot's flagship 2.8 trillion-parameter model, built on Kimi Delta Attention (a hybrid linear attention mechanism) with Attention Residuals. It offers native visual understanding, always-on reasoning, and a 1M-token context window for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning tasks.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
O3
openai/o3
Full spec →

o3 is OpenAI’s general-purpose reasoning model, balancing strong analytical performance with reasonable latency and cost.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Kimi K3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# O3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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