Moonshot’s 2.8T Kimi K3 beats Claude Opus, costs like Anthropic
Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s newest 2.8‑trillion‑parameter model, tops Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT‑5.6 on the pelican benchmark while offering token pricing comparable to Anthropic’s Claude series. At $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens it’s the priciest Chinese offering yet, with open weights slated for release soon.