Kimi-K3 vs Muse Spark 1.3

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

moonshotai · A · Open weights
Params
2,779.9 B
Context
—
30d
922 K
meta · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.25
Output / 1M
$4.25
AA index
48.1
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

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Specification Kimi-K3 Muse Spark 1.3
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 2,779.9 B n/a — API-only
Architecture KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration n/a — API-only
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence other Proprietary
Commercial use Unknown Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 922,082 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 5.7 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-06-13 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.24 $1.25
API output price / 1M tokens $10.80 $4.25
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $11.04 $5.50
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.21 $0.15
AA Intelligence Index 43.6 48.1
AA Coding Index 76.2 75.8
AA Agentic Index 50 55.5
Max output tokens 943,718 943,718
API providers 21 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Kimi-K3 $11.04
Muse Spark 1.3 $5.50

Muse Spark 1.3 is 2.0× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Kimi-K3 · fp16 2,134.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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