Kimi K3 (Novita) API

Novita AI · serves kimi-k3

Pricing

Input / 1M$3.00
Output / 1M$15.00
Blended / 1M$18
Cached input / 1M$0.30
Context window1,048,576 tokens
Max output16,384 tokens
LicenseOpen weights · Modified MIT conditional
Knowledge cutoffApril 2026 · source
Intelligence index59.7 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · source

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Price verified 2026-09-05 (0 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

Sources

SourceInput / 1MOutput / 1MVerified
Provider page$3.00$15.002026-09-05
LiteLLM$3.00$15.002026-09-03
models.dev$3.00$15.002026-09-04

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

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Call it

OpenAI-compatible endpoint — set NOVITA_API_KEY.

curl https://api.novita.ai/v3/openai/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOVITA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.novita.ai/v3/openai",
    api_key="...",  # NOVITA_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Use this data

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