Kimi K3 - Oxen.ai

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Model ID: kimi-k3 Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s largest Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M-token context window, built for long-horizon agentic coding and reasoning workloads with native visual understanding. The model uses the Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) hybrid linear attention mechanism and activates 16 of 896 experts per token. Thinking mode is always enabled, with reasoning content returned alongside the answer. It handles tool calling with strict JSON schema output, and understands images and video. Open weights were released in July 2026 under the custom Kimi K3 License.

Metric	Value
Parameter Count	2.8 trillion
Mixture of Experts	Yes (16 of 896 experts active)
Context Length	1,048,576 tokens
Multilingual	Yes
Quantized*	Unknown

*Quantization is specific to the inference provider and the model may be offered with different quantization levels by other providers.

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curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "kimi-k3",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ]
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "kimi-k3",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ]
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "kimi-k3",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "kimi-k3",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7,
        "max_tokens": 1024,
        "stream": false
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

curl -X POST https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "kimi-k3",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
    }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "stream": false,
  "top_p": 1.0
}'

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OXEN_API_KEY']}",
    },
    json={
        "model": "kimi-k3",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Hello, what can you do?"
            }
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7,
        "max_tokens": 1024,
        "stream": false,
        "top_p": 1.0
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

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curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OXEN_API_KEY" https://hub.oxen.ai/api/ai/models/kimi-k3

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This model follows the standard OpenAI chat completions request body. See the chat completions reference for the full parameter list.

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