Kimi-K3

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Support summary

Kimi-K3 is a checkpoint published by Moonshot AI, built on the KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration architecture. vLLM 0.28.0, the newest indexed vLLM release, documents support. Official recipes or cookbooks cover SGLang, without pinning a stable release.

vLLM documents support in 3 of 20 indexed releases, from 0.27.0 to 0.28.0.

Documented hardware
Ascend NPU, NVIDIA / CUDA, and AMD / ROCm
Documented quantization
default and MXFP4
Documented features
Reasoning parsers, Tensor parallelism, and Tool calling
Configured context
1,048,576 tokens
License
kimi-k3

Hardware, quantization and features count only statements about this checkpoint; engine-wide capabilities are listed with each release.

Hugging Face model card
Publisher
Moonshot AI
Task
image text to text
License
kimi-k3
Library
transformers
Architecture
KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration
Weight tensor elements
2.8T
Tensor types
F32, BF16, U8
Quantization
compressed-tensors · mxfp4-pack-quantized
Configured context
1,048,576 tokens
Weight access
Public
Repository created
2026-06-13
Source 1: moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · publisher model cardSource 2: moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · Hugging Face metadataSource 3: moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · publisher configurationReviewed
Model notes and sources

Engine support

3 engines

Engine support for Kimi-K3
EngineReleaseCheckpoint supportEvidence scopeLast known supported
vLLM0.28.0Newest indexedCheckpoint evidenceSource: vLLM v0.28.0 · docs/models/supported_models.mdReviewed 0.28.0This release
Features, dependencies and evidence for vLLM 0.28.0
SGLangVersion not pinnedRecipe / cookbookDocumented recipe

Official recipe

Source 1: sglang · docs/cookbook/autoregressive/Moonshotai/Kimi-K3.mdxSource 2: sglang · docs/src/snippets/_deployment.jsxSource 3: sglang · docs/src/snippets/configs/moonshotai/kimi-k3.jsxSource 4: sglang · docs/src/snippets/configs/moonshotai/kimi-k3-benchmarks.jsxSource 5: sglang · docs/src/snippets/_kimi_k3_mamba_ratio_calculator.jsxSource 6: sglang · docs/src/snippets/_playground.jsxReviewed
No supported release indexed
Features, dependencies and evidence for SGLang 0.5.19
TensorRT-LLM1.2.1Newest indexedNo matching evidence curatedNo supported release indexed
Features, dependencies and evidence for TensorRT-LLM 1.2.1

Recipes and cookbooks