What are the hardware requirements for Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 requires approximately 627.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kimi K3 and how large is it?

Kimi K3 is developed by FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN, a model with 2779.9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kimi K3 by FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN — VRAM 627.7GB

Name: Kimi K3
Author: FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN

Kimi K3 is an open-source language model by FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN. Features: 2779.9b LLM, VRAM: 627.7GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

8-bit Compressed-tensors Conversational Custom code Eval-results Feature-extraction Image-text-to-text Kimi k3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN/Kimi-K3

Kimi K3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi K3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN/Kimi-K3
Model Size	2779.9b
Required VRAM	627.7 GB
Updated	2026-09-12
Maintainer	FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN
Model Type	kimi_k3
Model Files	2.3 GB: 1-of-96 17.0 GB: 2-of-96 17.0 GB: 3-of-96 16.6 GB: 4-of-96 17.0 GB: 5-of-96 17.0 GB: 6-of-96 17.0 GB: 7-of-96 16.6 GB: 8-of-96 17.0 GB: 9-of-96 17.0 GB: 10-of-96 17.0 GB: 11-of-96 16.6 GB: 12-of-96 17.0 GB: 13-of-96 17.0 GB: 14-of-96 17.0 GB: 15-of-96 16.6 GB: 16-of-96 17.0 GB: 17-of-96 17.0 GB: 18-of-96 17.0 GB: 19-of-96 16.6 GB: 20-of-96 17.0 GB: 21-of-96 17.0 GB: 22-of-96 17.0 GB: 23-of-96 16.6 GB: 24-of-96 17.0 GB: 25-of-96 17.0 GB: 26-of-96 17.0 GB: 27-of-96 16.6 GB: 28-of-96 17.0 GB: 29-of-96 17.0 GB: 30-of-96 17.0 GB: 31-of-96 16.6 GB: 32-of-96 17.0 GB: 33-of-96 17.0 GB: 34-of-96 17.0 GB: 35-of-96 16.6 GB: 36-of-96 17.0 GB: 37-of-96 17.0 GB: 38-of-96
Model Architecture	KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration
License	other

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Best Alternatives to Kimi K3

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Kimi K3	0K / 627.7 GB	493481	9307
Kimi K3	0K / 627.7 GB	33	1
Kimi K3 INT4	0K / 432.6 GB	62	1
Smaug Agentic	0K / 650.3 GB	65	14
Kimi K3	0K / 627.7 GB	18	2
Kimi K3 Abliterated V1	0K / 661.3 GB	53	3
Kimi K3 Abliterated V1	0K / 661.3 GB	25	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than FAISALFAZALHUSSAIN/Kimi-K3.