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Kimi K3
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RANKED #13 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #17 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 7.0 · 5,202 VOICES ·
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A fast AI assistant built to help with writing, programming, and day-to-day work.
HAPPY9.3
985 mentions
SAD5.7
353 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 5,466 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
FROM THE MODEL CARD
Official published numbers, not a street-price estimate.
- PARAMETERS
- 2.8T total / 104B active (896 experts, 16 active)
- CONTEXT
- 1,048,576
- WEIGHTS
- MXFP4 weights + MXFP8 activations, ~1,561 GB safetensors
- DEPLOY
- No official hardware numbers. Recommended engines: vLLM, SGLang, TokenSpeed
- LICENSE
- Kimi K3 License
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Kimi K3 for its quick responses, strong writing, and helpful coding skills. However, many complain about frequent refusals, strict censorship, and occasional outages.
4199 POSTS · 1074 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · X · DEV.TO · GITHUB · LEMMY · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (52 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (72 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (19 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (13 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (28 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (19 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (19 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
52 thumbs up · 37 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
72 thumbs up · 17 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
10 thumbs up · 28 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
11 thumbs up · 19 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
5 thumbs up · 19 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
19 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
13 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Long conversationsPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM BLOG >
“Kimi K3 comes in at 2 overall on the Vals AI index , 3 overall on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index (only beaten by Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol Max while being cheaper ), 1 overall in Frontend Code Arena , and more impressive results .”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Kimi k3 It's very expensive..”
- FROM X >
“OpenCode Go has to be the best deal on the planet $10/mo for GLM 5.3, Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro...”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails”.”
- FROM BLOG >
“(Activity: 569): The author got Kimi K3 running on an M1 Max MacBook with 64GB RAM via gavamedia/deltafin , avoiding the full ~1.56TB model download by keeping ~114GB of int8 non-expert weights locally and streaming only the MoE experts selected per token: 16 / 896 experts per layer via Hugging Face range requests…”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Kimi K3 censorship driving me insane.”
- FROM GITHUB >
“User Impact User impact: providers that serve Kimi K3.1 Pro (including its highspeed tier) list it among their recommended models, directly ahead of Kimi K3.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-27 · 3144 UPVOTESKimi K3 weights now released.
Kimi K3 weights now released.
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-07-16 · 2107 UPVOTESKimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
- REDDIT · 2026-07-16 · 2041 UPVOTESKimi-K3 arrived: The era of the Chinese labs being far behind is over
Kimi-K3 arrived: The era of the Chinese labs being far behind is over
- REDDIT · 2026-07-20 · 1946 UPVOTESKimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails”. Hugging Face: We had this…
Kimi K3 just fixed 15 critical security bugs that Codex and Fable refused because of “cyber guardrails”. Hugging Face: We had this experience ourselves this week! Very scary to be guardrailed as a defender when you know attackers are likely bypassing
- REDDIT · 2026-08-04 · 1724 UPVOTESKimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps
Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps
- REDDIT · 2026-07-20 · 1568 UPVOTESDavid Sacks says U.S. AI guardrails are making American models less competitive after China’s Kimi K3 fixed 15 security bugs that Codex and…
David Sacks says U.S. AI guardrails are making American models less competitive after China’s Kimi K3 fixed 15 security bugs that Codex and Fable refused
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-07-27 · 1382 UPVOTESKimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
- X · 2026-08-14 · 1296 UPVOTES2 things are happening at once: - AI coding models are converging. For 95% of tasks, most people can’t tell whether GPT-
2 things are happening at once: - AI coding models are converging. For 95% of tasks, most people can’t tell whether GPT-
- X · 2026-08-18 · 1180 UPVOTESGLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Onc
GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Onc
- REDDIT · 2026-07-16 · 1172 UPVOTESKimi K3 tops Frontend Code Arena
Kimi K3 tops Frontend Code Arena
- REDDIT · 2026-07-17 · 1071 UPVOTESKimi K3 is top of nextjs eval
Kimi K3 is top of nextjs eval
- REDDIT · 2026-08-02 · 1035 UPVOTESSetting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster
Setting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster