
Kimi K3 is now available on AI Gateway
Quick Answer
Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway, featuring a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding for text, image, and video inputs.
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Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway, featuring a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding for text, image, and video inputs. Ideal for software engineering and deep reasoning tasks, it excels in frontend, game development, and CAD workflows, with a seamless integration via the AI SDK.
Key Points
- Kimi K3 supports a 1M-token context window for enhanced processing capabilities.
- The model is optimized for long-horizon software engineering and deep reasoning tasks.
- AI Gateway offers a unified API for model usage tracking and performance optimizations.
- No platform fees on inference, including Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.
- The AI Gateway model leaderboard ranks popular models based on token processing volume.
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~1 min readKimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway.
K3 is an open-source model with a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding, accepting text, image, and video inputs.
Built for long-horizon software engineering, knowledge work, and deep reasoning, K3 is especially strong where code meets visual and spatial reasoning, which suits frontend, game development, and CAD workflows. Thinking mode is always on.
To use Kimi K3, set model to moonshotai/kimi-k3 in the AI SDK:
import { streamText } from 'ai';
const result = streamText({
model: 'moonshotai/kimi-k3',
prompt: 'Trace this rendering bug across the codebase and open a PR with a fix.',
});
AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, routing rules, and more.
AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.
Try Kimi K3 in the model playground.
AI Gateway: Track top AI models by usage
The AI Gateway model leaderboard tracks the most popular models over time, ranking them by the total volume of tokens processed across all Gateway traffic.
View the leaderboard
— Originally published at vercel.com
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