Kimi K3 cut across 2 hosts, by up to 19% at Sail Research (all rates)
Published 18 September 2026
Price move, per 1M tokens
- Sail Research · input↓ 19%$2.65 → $2.14
- Sail Research · output↓ 19%$13.28 → $10.76
- Sail Research · cache read↓ 19%$0.303 → $0.244
- Wafer · input↓ 17%$3.00 → $2.50
- Wafer · output↓ 14%$12.75 → $10.95
- Wafer · cache read↓ 17%$0.30 → $0.25
| host | rate | was | now | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sail Research | input | $2.65 | $2.14 | ↓ 19% |
| Sail Research | output | $13.28 | $10.76 | ↓ 19% |
| Sail Research | cache read | $0.303 | $0.244 | ↓ 19% |
| Wafer | input | $3.00 | $2.50 | ↓ 17% |
| Wafer | output | $12.75 | $10.95 | ↓ 14% |
| Wafer | cache read | $0.30 | $0.25 | ↓ 17% |
Sail Research all rates: ↓ 19%Wafer input and cache read: ↓ 17%
The model
Kimi K3open the model →
Open weights2779.9B parameters1049K context25 hosts
intelligence12th of 168 writing18th of 168 coding6th of 168 agents10th of 55
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's massive-scale mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active per word. It excels at reasoning and web-development tasks, and handles up to one million tokens in a single request, though its weights carry commercial restrictions.
Source
Read from the hosts' own published rates · we published this on 18 September 2026.