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How smart is Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 is a model from Moonshot, released on Jul 16, 2026. Its SI-IQ is 127 (90% interval 124–130), estimated from 9 benchmark results by 2 evaluators.
Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · method 1.0.0
Facts
- Developer
- Moonshot
- Released
- Jul 16, 2026
- Access
- Open weights (non-commercial licence)
- Benchmarks used
- 9 benchmark results from 2 evaluators
- API price
- $3.00 input / $15 output per 1M tokens (developer's price list, Oct 18, 2026)
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
Ability by area (SI-IQ, 90% interval)
Every benchmark result we used
Each score is one value exactly as the source published it: for Epoch AI the best of its run settings, for OpenRouter the median hosting provider (the developer's own hosting when it ran the test). “Implied SI-IQ” is the ability that this single result points to; the overall SI-IQ is their precision-weighted average.
| Benchmark | Score | Evaluated by | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 37.0% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| Furniture Assembly not in index | 34.2% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 26.0% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 39.0% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 72.2% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 | 97.2% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.1% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) | 91.6% | OpenRouter | OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file |
| SimpleQA Verified | 50.6% | Epoch AI | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file |
| τ²-bench Airline (OpenRouter run) | 73.5% | OpenRouter | OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file |
Human preference (Arena)
On the Arena leaderboard, where people vote between two anonymous answers, Kimi K3 has a rating of 1,487 (1,482–1,492) from 32,795 votes (published Oct 15, 2026). Human preference is a different measure from benchmark ability and is not part of SI-IQ. Arena (Hugging Face)
Models with similar SI-IQ
| Model | SI-IQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark OpenMeta AI | 127 | Kimi K3 vs Muse Spark Open |
| Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 127 | Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 4.7 |
| Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle DeepMind | 127 | Kimi K3 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 128 | Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 128 | Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
Computed with SI-IQ method version 1.0.0. Read the full methodology
Data sources: Arena leaderboard dataset on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0); Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); LiteLLM, model_prices_and_context_window.json (MIT); Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse and republish with attribution to OpenRouter (licences and changes).