Kimi-K3 vs Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

moonshotai · A · Open weights

Params

2,779.9 B

Context

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30d

856 K

cdiamond · B · Open weights

Params

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Context

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30d

3.3 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Kimi-K3	Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF
Deployment	Open weights · also via API	Open weights
Parameters	2,779.9 B	—
Architecture	KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration	—
Context length	1,048,576	—
Licence	other	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Unknown	Allowed
Languages	—	—
Downloads 30d	856,232	3,260,065
Downloads all time	5.7 M	9.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	GGUF
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2026-06-13	2026-08-17
API input price / 1M tokens	$0.19	not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens	$16.00	not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	$16.19	not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens	$0.18	not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index	17.4	not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index	72	not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index	29.3	not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens	943,718	not on OpenRouter
API providers	20	not on OpenRouter
Tool calling	Yes	not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode	Yes	not on OpenRouter

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

Kimi-K3 $16.19

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.0 M856 K

Kimi-K3 Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF

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

Kimi-K3 · fp16 2,134.5 GB / 24 GB

❌ Won’t fit