Moonshot AI has opened API access to Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that prices its input and output tokens at roughly one-third the cost of Anthropic's flagship Claude Fable 5, sharpening the competition between Chinese and U.S. frontier labs. The Beijing-based company released the API around July 16, 2026, with full weights slated to follow on July 27, and the pricing gap has quickly become the headline talking point among developers weighing which model to deploy for long-running coding and agentic work.
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