Pricing°
Kimi K3 input price cut to $0.62 per 1M tokens
Kimi K3 input pricing dropped from $0.69 to $0.62 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter. Output pricing is unchanged at $15 per 1M tokens. The change affects input costs only, so the gap between read and write costs widens further.
Pricing7 Oct 2026MoonshotAI
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheaper input makes it more affordable to push large context into Kimi K3, so expect teams running brand visibility checks to feed in fuller page content rather than snippets. If you track how your product is described across models, Kimi K3 is now cheaper to include in that monitoring set.
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