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 moonshotai, 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.

How does Kimi K3 perform on standard benchmarks?

Kimi K3 has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1485. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Kimi K3 by moonshotai — VRAM 627.7GB

Name: Kimi K3
Author: moonshotai

Kimi K3 is an open-source language model by moonshotai. Features: 2779.9b LLM, VRAM: 627.7GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.69, ELO: 1485.

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/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

Kimi K3 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1485 vs 1272 (so35) 16.7%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Kimi K3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi K3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Model Size	2779.9b
Required VRAM	627.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	moonshotai
Model Type	kimi_k3
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Model Architecture	KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration
License	other

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Quantized Models of the Kimi K3

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Kimi K3 Mlx Reap160 2bit	1	998	181 GB

Best Alternatives to Kimi K3

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
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