Kimi K3

Guides, benchmarks and integration notes for Kimi K3, the open-weight 2.8T-parameter reasoning model from Moonshot AI, covering API use and self-hosting.

Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs
posts

Moving Off OpenAI: What an Open-Weight Switch Costs

Moving off OpenAI to an open-weight model: what actually transfers, what quietly breaks, how to run a fair comparison, and when the saving is real.

Continue Reading
Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Hardware, Cost and Sovereignty
posts

Self-Hosting Kimi K3: Hardware, Cost and Sovereignty

Self-hosting Kimi K3 means about 1.4 TB of weights and far more VRAM than a single GPU node. Here is the real hardware, cost and data sovereignty maths.

Continue Reading
Kimi K3 API: Pricing, Integration and Trade-Offs
posts

Kimi K3 API: Pricing, Integration and Trade-Offs

The Kimi K3 API in production: real pricing maths, what the million-token context and reasoning effort settings cost, and when it beats a frontier model.

Continue Reading

A PROJECT STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION

Tell us what
you have in mind.

Share the outcome you need, your existing systems and any constraints. You don't need a technical specification to start.

If the form does not work, email us directly at contact@mecanik.dev

Direct engineering support

Direct technical collaboration.
A clear scope and accountable delivery.