Migrating from kimi-k2-0711-preview to kimi-k3
What changes when you move from kimi-k2-0711-preview to kimi-k3: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- May 25, 2026
- Time left
- —
- To
- kimi-k3
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | kimi-k2-0711-preview | kimi-k3 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $3.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | — |
| Cached input | Not published | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | — |
| Output | Not published | $15.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
TokensNeither company publishes a context window or output limit for these models.
Benchmarks
Same benchmark and source on both sides; settings named where they differ| Benchmark | kimi-k2-0711-preview | kimi-k3 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena, max effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. | 1418 ±5 | 1488 ±5 | +70 |
| Arena Text: CodingArena, max effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. | 1460 ±8 | 1539 ±7 | +79 |
A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsNeither company publishes feature facts for these models.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kimi-k2-0711-preview | Groq | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct | Oct 10, 2025Retired on October 10, 2025 | |
| kimi-k3 | Amazon Bedrock | moonshotai.kimi-k3 | none announcedActive |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
kimi-k2-0711-previewtokimi-k3.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: kimi-k2-0711-preview, kimi-k3.