Best-performing open model; weights now released on Hugging Face. 2.8T total parameter MoE with 104B active, 1.56 TB in size, aimed at enterprises.

Kimi K3.1
by Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's open-weight 2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE agentic model with 1M-token context.
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Kimi K3.1 at a glance
- What is Kimi K3.1?
- Kimi K3.1 is a model from Moonshot AI. Moonshot AI's open-weight 2.8T-parameter multimodal MoE agentic model with 1M-token context.
- Who makes Kimi K3.1?
- Kimi K3.1 is made by Moonshot AI.
- Does Kimi K3.1 work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face without any stated EU exclusion (custom license text not fully reviewed), and the API and chat are publicly accessible. No explicit EU/EEA supported-countries list or data-residency information was found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Kimi K3.1 cost?
- API pricing. API reportedly $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens (per creator review). Weights downloadable for free from Hugging Face. Release date is the Hugging Face repo creation date; the hosted launch may have been earlier. Licence: Kimi K3.1 Pro license (custom).
- Where was Kimi K3.1 shown?
- In 7 creator videos by AI Search, Matt Wolfe, Matthew Berman. Most recently by AI Search on 8 Nov 2026, at 38:00 in “Weight space programming, new 3D models, Gemini Omni 1.2, GPT Image 2.6: AI NEWS”.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro is a Mixture-of-Experts model from Moonshot AI with 2.8T total and 104B activated parameters, 93 layers (69 KDA and 24 Gated DSA attention layers) and a 1-million-token context window. It is natively multimodal (image-text-to-text) and post-trained from Kimi K3 with large-scale reinforcement learning. It is the first model in the K3.1 series.
Moonshot positions it for coding, 3D creation, financial research, factual accuracy and other agentic tasks. Creators report benchmark results near top closed models (e.g. Terminal Bench 65.7, OSWorld 79.6), though one hands-on review found real-world tests fell short of the best closed models.
It is available through the Kimi chat site and the Kimi platform API (reported at about $2 input / $10 output per million tokens). Weights are published on Hugging Face under a custom "kimi-k3.1-pro" license in compressed-tensors format. The checkpoint is roughly 1.5 TB, so self-hosting needs on the order of 1.2 TB of VRAM, which limits it to enterprise-scale infrastructure.
- 2.8T-parameter MoE with 104B active parameters
- 1M-token context window
- Natively multimodal (image and text input)
- Open weights on Hugging Face
- Focus on coding, agentic tasks, 3D creation and financial research
- Available via chat and API
As seen on YouTube
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Top open-weight model, just below Claude Fable 5.1, with weights now on Hugging Face: 2.8 trillion parameters, 1.56 TB.
Moonshot released open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, a roughly 3T-parameter frontier-grade model needing about 1.2 TB VRAM. It ranks near the top on Terminal Bench, Agent SL Exam, OS World and GDP Eval, just behind Opus 5.5 in several.
Open-weight model with 2.8T total parameters (104B active) and 1M context, weights due November 4th. It scores 46 on Artificial Analysis, well above other open models, and ranked 11th on his bench. It's impractical to run at home but matters for on-premise use.
Newest Moonshot model, scores higher overall on benchmarks, but the creator thinks DeepSeek is better. Its iPhone Duo 3D test was worse than DeepSeek's.
3 trillion parameter model with a 1M context window, roughly on par with frontier models on benchmarks and cheaper per task. Available on Kimi's platform and API, with open weights planned for release later.
Open-weights frontier-class MoE model (~2.8T total, 104B active, 1M context, multimodal). The creator tested it on a Rubik's Cube sim (strong pass), iPhone 3D render, Blender knot (fail), motion graphics, a Fall Guys clone and a site redesign. Benchmarks are near Opus 5.5 (Terminal Bench 65.7, OSWorld 79.6, AA index 55), priced at $2/$10 per million tokens, but real-world tests fall short of the top closed models.
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