Kimi K3 repriced across 4 hosts: InferenceNet input down 60%, Sail Research output up 62%
Published 29 September 2026
Price move, per 1M tokens
- Sail Research · input↓ 10%$0.90 → $0.81
- Sail Research · output↑ 62%$7.86 → $12.75
- Sail Research · cache read↑ 33%$0.30 → $0.40
- InferenceNet · input↓ 60%$1.00 → $0.40
- InferenceNet · outputunchanged$9.00 → $9.00
- InferenceNet · cache read↑ 33%$0.30 → $0.40
- Wafer · input↑ 44%$1.00 → $1.44
- Wafer · outputunchanged$9.00 → $9.00
- Wafer · cache readunchanged$0.30 → $0.30
- Morph · input↑ 40%$0.88 → $1.23
- Morph · output↓ 4%$11.20 → $10.70
- Morph · cache readunchanged$0.29 → $0.29
| host | rate | was | now | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sail Research | input | $0.90 | $0.81 | ↓ 10% |
| Sail Research | output | $7.86 | $12.75 | ↑ 62% |
| Sail Research | cache read | $0.30 | $0.40 | ↑ 33% |
| InferenceNet | input | $1.00 | $0.40 | ↓ 60% |
| InferenceNet | output | $9.00 | $9.00 | — |
| InferenceNet | cache read | $0.30 | $0.40 | ↑ 33% |
| Wafer | input | $1.00 | $1.44 | ↑ 44% |
| Wafer | output | $9.00 | $9.00 | — |
| Wafer | cache read | $0.30 | $0.30 | — |
| Morph | input | $0.88 | $1.23 | ↑ 40% |
| Morph | output | $11.20 | $10.70 | ↓ 4% |
| Morph | cache read | $0.29 | $0.29 | — |
Sail Research input: ↓ 10%Sail Research output: ↑ 62%InferenceNet input: ↓ 60%InferenceNet cache read: ↑ 33%Wafer input: ↑ 44%Morph output: ↓ 4%Morph input: ↑ 40%
If you buy
If you lean on long outputs at Sail Research, re-check your budget before the next top-up, while prompt-heavy work now fits a different host.
The model
Kimi K3open the model →
Open weights2779.9B parameters1049K context25 hosts
intelligence12th of 168 writing18th of 168 coding6th of 168 agents10th of 55
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's massive-scale mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active per word. It excels at reasoning and web-development tasks, and handles up to one million tokens in a single request, though its weights carry commercial restrictions.
Source
Read on openrouter.ai · we published this on 29 September 2026.
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