Kimi K3
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 release, with independent coding, multimodal and agentic results.
Moonshot AIReleased 16 July 2026Context 1M tokensOutput 1M tokensOpen weights$3.00 in / $15.00 out per Mtok
Where it stands
Rank compares tracked models with a score. Published shows the source’s rank and field size, when available.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Published | Leader | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vals IndexVals AI | 50.70% | 25of 33 | 26of 41 | Gemini 4 Argon | 18.20 pts |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis | 44 | 16of 42 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 14 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Artificial Analysis | 12.63% | 31of 40 | no list read | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 51.01 pts |
| SWE-bench (Verified)Vals AI | 93.40% | 8of 23 | 8of 88 | Claude Opus 5 | 3.60 pts |
| LiveCodeBenchVals AI | 87.19% | 12of 21 | 18of 143 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 3.33 pts |
| GPQA DiamondVals AI | 92.93% | 11of 23 | 12of 138 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | 2.52 pts |
| MMLU ProVals AI | 87.97% | 15of 24 | 22of 138 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 4.41 pts |
| MMMU ProVals AI | 88.15% | 9of 20 | 11of 93 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 2.49 pts |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI | 84.96% | 13of 38 | 13of 106 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 7.43 pts |
| ProgramBenchVals AI | 2.00% | 6of 29 | 6of 54 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 16.50 pts |
| APEX-Agents-AAArtificial Analysis | 41.30% | 2of 7 | no list read | Gemini 3 5 Flash | 5.75 pts |
| τ³-BankingArtificial Analysis | 45.98% | 8of 30 | no list read | Qwen3.8 Max | 5.36 pts |
| ITBench-AAArtificial Analysis | 47.69% | 8of 18 | no list read | GPT-5.6 Sol | 8.52 pts |
| AA-AnalystAgentArtificial Analysis | 38.75% | 14of 18 | no list read | Gemini 3.7 Flash | 21.25 pts |
| MLCR-AAArtificial Analysis | 38.33% | 11of 37 | no list read | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 36.67 pts |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 FullScale AI / SEAL | 97.70% | 3of 10 | no list read | Claude Opus 5 | 1.70 pts |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 HARDScale AI / SEAL | 88.20% | 4of 10 | no list read | Claude Opus 5 | 9.80 pts |
| Vals RSI IndexVals AI | 20.88% | 13of 20 | 13of 23 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 16.43 pts |
| Vibe Code Bench 1–100Vals AI | 18.24% | 10of 20 | 10of 20 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 12.12 pts |
| Harvey LAB-AAArtificial Analysis | 94.64% | 2of 20 | no list read | Muse Spark 1.3 Max | 0.84 pts |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym-AAArtificial Analysis | 45.33% | 10of 22 | no list read | Claude Fable 5 | 5.79 pts |
| AutomationBench-AAArtificial Analysis | 58.27% | 19of 40 | no list read | Gemini 4 Argon | 19.24 pts |
| SciCodeArtificial Analysis | 59.49% | 7of 40 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 7.41 pts |
| GDP.pdfArtificial Analysis | 22.00% | 16of 40 | no list read | GPT-6.1 Sol | 9.00 pts |
| CritPtArtificial Analysis | 23.43% | 15of 42 | no list read | GPT-5.6 Sol | 8.86 pts |
| AA-OmniscienceArtificial Analysis | 19.7 | 22of 42 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 26.72 |
| AA-LCR v1.1Artificial Analysis | 88.67% | 1of 42 | no list read | Kimi K3 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1Vals AI | 80.90% | 9of 35 | 9of 75 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 6.74 pts |
| ProofBench v1.1Vals AI | 87.00% | 9of 34 | 10of 46 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 13.00 pts |
| LegalBenchVals AI | 86.02% | 11of 27 | 15of 149 | Claude Fable 5 | 2.54 pts |
| Harvey's Legal Agent BenchmarkVals AI | 10.83% | 9of 37 | 12of 73 | Muse Spark 1.2 | 14.59 pts |
| Vals Multimodal IndexVals AI | 73.42% | 3of 17 | 3of 33 | Claude Fable 5 | 0.73 pts |
| BioMysteryBenchVals AI | 71.48% | 9of 19 | 9of 21 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 9.63 pts |
| Code MigrationVals AI | 16.10% | 35of 37 | 48of 71 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 53.73 pts |
| CyberBench v1.1Vals AI | 75.24% | 6of 31 | 6of 43 | GPT-6 Sol | 2.74 pts |
| EMBVals AI | 66.40% | 18of 37 | 18of 69 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 10.27 pts |
| Finance Agent (v2)Vals AI | 54.36% | 18of 37 | 23of 73 | Gemini 4 Argon | 11.04 pts |
| IOIVals AI | 48.94% | 23of 31 | 24of 38 | Gemini 4 Argon | 51.06 pts |
| Legal Research BenchVals AI | 44.23% | 16of 37 | 17of 72 | Muse Spark 1.3 Max | 11.06 pts |
| MedCodeVals AI | 48.88% | 14of 35 | 25of 104 | Claude Opus 5 | 14.69 pts |
| MedScribeVals AI | 87.96% | 11of 36 | 13of 106 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 3.47 pts |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1Vals AI | 68.27% | 10of 29 | 10of 45 | Claude Opus 5 | 8.66 pts |
| SAGEVals AI | 54.26% | 3of 32 | 4of 90 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 1.84 pts |
| Tax Agent BenchVals AI | 68.67% | 10of 37 | 11of 64 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 8.97 pts |
| DeepSWE v1.1Datacurve | 68.51% | 8of 20 | 8of 28 | GPT-6 Astra | 5.61 pts |
| GDPval-AA v2.1Artificial Analysis | 1,539.99 | 24of 42 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 306.18 |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1Artificial Analysis | 1,500.5 | 16of 41 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 321.35 |
| Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis | 46.90% | 17of 42 | no list read | Claude Opus 5.5 | 14.45 pts |
Nearby on Vals Index
The two models above and below on the Vals Index (Vals AI), on every column where this model has a published number.
| Model | Vals Index | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | Terminal-Bench 4.0 | SWE-bench | LiveCodeBench | GPQA Diamond | MMLU Pro | MMMU Pro | Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | ProgramBench |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 51.27% | 39 | 13.64% | 80.80% | 88.65% | 93.94% | 90.12% | 88.96% | 70.39% | 0.00% |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 51.22% | 37 | 12.63% | – | – | – | – | – | 81.65% | 0.50% |
| Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 50.70% | 44 | 12.63% | 93.40% | 87.19% | 92.93% | 87.97% | 88.15% | 84.96% | 2.00% |
| Hunyuan Hy4 PreviewTencent | 49.94% | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 77.48% | 0.00% |
| Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 49.29% | 40 | 7.07% | 86.60% | – | – | 88.28% | 86.13% | 79.10% | – |
What the hosted runtime reports
Ollama Cloud serves its own copy of this model, so its context cap and its prices are the ones a caller actually gets. Read 25 September 2026.
- Parameters
- 2.81T parameters16 of 896 experts per token
- Hosted context
- 1M tokens
- Hosted price / Mtok
- $3.00in · $0.300 cached · $15.00 out
Vision inputTool callingReasoning modeServed by the hostInput: Text, Image
Described by Moonshot as the first open 3T-class model, with weights released under the Kimi K3 licence.
Results by benchmark
Independent and vendor results retain their own harnesses and effort settings.
| Benchmark | Independent run | As reported by a publisher |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents-AAKnowledge work | 41.30%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| τ³-BankingTool use | 45.98%Artificial Analysis | 37.1%tau3 bankingReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 3 of 6 in this publisher table |
| ITBench-AAIT operations | 47.69%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| AA-AnalystAgentData analysis | 38.75%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| MLCR-AAMedical reasoning | 38.33%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 FullRepository coding | 97.70%Scale AI / SEAL | not published |
| SWE-Bench Pro V2 HARDRepository coding | 88.20%Scale AI / SEAL | 88.2%SWE Bench Pro v2-HardReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 4 in this publisher table |
| Vals RSI IndexAutonomous research | 20.88%Vals AI | not published |
| Vibe Code Bench 1–100Application development | 18.24%Vals AI | not published |
| Harvey LAB-AALegal reasoning | 94.64%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym-AAEnterprise workflows | 45.33%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| Apex Bench v1.1Reasoning | no published result | 47.8%Apex Bench v1.1DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 6 of 6 in this publisher table |
| PLawBenchProfessional knowledge | no published result | 76.2%PLawBenchZ.ai · 12 October 2026Rank 3 of 5 in this publisher table |
| SWE Atlas Codebase QnACodebase understanding | no published result | 68.0%SWE Atlas Codebase QnAReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 3 in this publisher table |
| AutomationBench (public split)Business workflows | no published result | 46.7%AutomationBench publicReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 3 of 6 in this publisher table |
| MCP AtlasAgentic tooling | no published result | 82.3%MCP AtlasReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 3 of 7 in this publisher table |
| BrowseComp (context management)Web research | no published result | 91.2%BrowseComp w/ context managementReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 4 in this publisher table |
| DeepSearchQA (context management)Web research | no published result | 95.0%DeepSearchQA w/context managementReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 2 in this publisher table |
| AA-LCR (version not specified)Long-context reasoning | no published result | 88.7%AA-LCRReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 8 in this publisher table |
| AutomationBench-AAWorkflow automation | 58.27%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| SciCodeScientific coding | 59.49%Artificial Analysis | 58.7%SciCodeReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 2 of 7 in this publisher table |
| GDP.pdfDocument reasoning | 22.00%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| CritPtScientific reasoning | 23.43%Artificial Analysis | 23.4%CriPT AAReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 8 in this publisher table |
| AA-OmniscienceFactual knowledge | 19.7Artificial Analysis | not published |
| AA-LCR v1.1Long-context reasoning | 88.67%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Agentic coding | 12.63%Artificial Analysis 19.70%Vals AI | 12.6%Terminal-Bench 4.0DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 6 of 6 in this publisher table 12.6%Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 5 of 7 in this publisher table |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1Agentic coding | 80.90%Vals AI 85.02%Artificial Analysis | 88.3%Terminal Bench v2.1Reflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 2 of 8 in this publisher table 88.3%Terminal Bench 2.1Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 2 of 8 in this publisher table 88.3%Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table |
| SWE-bench (Verified)Software engineering | 93.40%Vals AI | not published |
| LiveCodeBenchCode generation | 87.19%Vals AI | not published |
| GPQA DiamondScience reasoning | 92.93%Vals AI 93.54%Artificial Analysis | 93.5%GPQA DiamondReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 8 in this publisher table 92.9%GPQA Diamond (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 3 of 7 in this publisher table |
| MMLU ProKnowledge | 87.97%Vals AI | not published |
| MMMU ProMultimodal reasoning | 88.15%Vals AI 80.52%Artificial Analysis | not published |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1Product coding | 84.96%Vals AI | not published |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1Agentic science | 2.86%Vals AI | not published |
| ProgramBenchAgentic coding | 2.00%Vals AI | 17.5%ProgramBenchDeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 6 of 6 in this publisher table 17.5%ProgramBench (Almost Solved)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table 17.5%ProgramBench (Almost@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table |
| ProofBench v1.1Mathematics | 87.00%Vals AI | not published |
| LegalBenchProfessional knowledge | 86.02%Vals AI | 86.2%LegalBenchZ.ai · 12 October 2026Rank 3 of 5 in this publisher table |
| Harvey's Legal Agent BenchmarkProfessional knowledge | 10.83%Vals AI | 12.9%Harvey's Legal Agent BenchmarkZ.ai · 12 October 2026Rank 2 of 5 in this publisher table |
| Vals Multimodal IndexComposite | 73.42%Vals AI | not published |
| Vals IndexComposite | 50.70%Vals AI | not published |
| BioMysteryBenchAgentic science | 71.48%Vals AI | not published |
| Code MigrationAgentic coding | 16.10%Vals AI | not published |
| CyberBench v1.1Security | 75.24%Vals AI | not published |
| EMBFinancial modelling | 66.40%Vals AI | not published |
| Finance Agent (v2)Financial analysis | 54.36%Vals AI | not published |
| IOICompetitive programming | 48.94%Vals AI | not published |
| Legal Research BenchProfessional knowledge | 44.23%Vals AI | not published |
| MedCodeHealthcare administration | 48.88%Vals AI | not published |
| MedScribeHealthcare administration | 87.96%Vals AI | not published |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1Public services | 68.27%Vals AI | not published |
| SAGEEducation | 54.26%Vals AI | not published |
| Tax Agent BenchProfessional knowledge | 68.67%Vals AI | not published |
| AutomationBenchBusiness workflows | no published result | 46.7%AutomationBench (v1.0.6)DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table 46.7%AutomationBench (v1.0.6)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 2 of 8 in this publisher table 46.7%AutomationBench (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table |
| DeepSWE v1.1Software engineering | 68.51%Datacurve | 67.5%DeepSWE v1.1DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table 68.0%DeepSWE v1.1Reflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 2 of 6 in this publisher table 67.5%DeepSWE (v1.1)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 3 of 8 in this publisher table 67.5%DeepSWE v1.1 (Resolved)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table |
| GDPval-AA v2.1Knowledge work | 1,539.99Artificial Analysis | not published |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1Knowledge work | 1,500.5Artificial Analysis | not published |
| ChartographyVisual chart recognition | no published result | 26.6%Chartography (no tools)Anthropic · 7 October 2026Rank 7 of 10 in this publisher table 68.1%Chartography (w/tools)DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 5 in this publisher table 68.1%Chartography w/ tools (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 4 in this publisher table |
| Humanity's Last ExamMultidisciplinary reasoning | 46.90%Artificial Analysis | 43.5%HLE (w/o tools)DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 3 of 5 in this publisher table 46.9%HLE no toolsReflection AI · 5 October 2026Rank 1 of 8 in this publisher table 59.8%HLE w/ ToolsZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 8 in this publisher table 43.5%HLE (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 3 of 7 in this publisher table 59.8%HLE w/ tools (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table |
| Agents' Last ExamComputer use | no published result | 27.6%Agents' Last ExamDeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table 27.6%Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 3 of 8 in this publisher table 27.6%Agents' Last Exam (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexComposite | 44Artificial Analysis | not published |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0Agentic coding | no published result | 17.4%Terminal Bench 3.0Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table 17.7%Terminal-Bench 3.0 (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 5 of 7 in this publisher table |
| NL2Repo-BenchAgentic coding | no published result | 58.0%NL2Repo-BenchDeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 4 of 6 in this publisher table 58.0%NL2RepoZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 3 of 6 in this publisher table 58.0%NL2Repo-Bench (Score)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 7 in this publisher table |
| CyberGymSecurity | no published result | 80.0%CyberGymZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 8 in this publisher table 80.0%CyberGym (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table |
| ExploitGymSecurity | no published result | 36ExploitGym (2h)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 7 in this publisher table 70ExploitGym (6h)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 7 in this publisher table |
| MathArena ApexMathematics | no published result | 65.6%MathArena Apex (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 1 of 4 in this publisher table |
| BabyVisionMultimodal | no published result | 85.7%BabyVision (w/tools)DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 5 in this publisher table 85.7%BabyVision w/tools (Pass@1)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 4 in this publisher table |
| ZeroBench (main set)Multimodal | no published result | 41.0%ZeroBench-main (w/tools)DeepSeek · 17 October 2026Rank 5 of 5 in this publisher table 41.0%ZeroBench-main w/tools (Pass@5)DeepSeek · 10 September 2026Rank 4 of 4 in this publisher table |
| SWE-MarathonAgentic coding | no published result | 48.1%SWE-Marathon (v1.1)Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 2 of 6 in this publisher table |
| PostTrainBenchAI research | no published result | 32.0%PostTrainBenchZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 6 in this publisher table |
| ExploitBenchSecurity | no published result | 32.2%ExploitBenchZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 7 in this publisher table |
| Toolathlon VerifiedAgentic tooling | no published result | 76.5%Toolathlon VerifiedZ.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 1 of 8 in this publisher table |
| GDPval-AA v2Knowledge work | no published result | 1,682GDPval-AA v2Z.ai · 14 August 2026Rank 5 of 8 in this publisher table |
Sources
Read on 17 October 2026.
- Vals AI model pagewww.vals.ai/models/kimi_kimi-k3
- Ollama model pageollama.com/library/kimi-k3