[Moonshot AI](/ai-gateway/models/labs/moonshotai) # Kimi K3 Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's open-source model with native visual understanding, always-on thinking, and a context window of 1.0M tokens, built for long-horizon software engineering and available through AI Gateway via Moonshot AI, Fireworks, Baseten, Morph, Nebius, Together AI, DigitalOcean, Modal, Wafer, Alibaba Cloud, DeepInfra. Your use is subject to Moonshot AI's [Terms](https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs/agreement/modeluse.en-US) & [Privacy](https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs/agreement/userprivacy.en-US) Policies. ReasoningTool UseImplicit CachingFile InputVision (Image)Video Input [Use with AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Futm_source%3Dgateway-model-page%26utm_campaign%3Dai-gateway-models&title=Get+Started+with+Vercel+AI+Gateway) [View docs](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway) AI SDKChat CompletionsMessagesResponses ``` 1import { streamText } from 'ai' 2 3const result = streamText({ 4 model: 'moonshotai/kimi-k3', 5 prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?' 6}) ``` [Read docs](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/ai-sdk) [Overview](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3) [API](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/api) [About](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/about) [Providers](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/providers) [Throughput](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/throughput) [Latency](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/latency) [Uptime](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/uptime) [Status](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/status) [Similar](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/similar) [FAQ](/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3/faq) ## [Copy link to heading](#providers)Providers Route requests across multiple providers. 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