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Kimi K3 API

Kimi K3 by Moonshot on one AI Creator API key, in Claude Code, Codex, Cline, OpenCode and Aider. You pay for the actual tokens; the balance is in dollars, topped up by card or crypto.

Price per 1M tokens

Prices as of

TokensAI Creator API
Input$0.098
Cache read$0.01
Cache write, 5 minutes$0.096
Cache write, 1 hour$0.096
Output$0.486
  • A dash means the model has no such price. Cache reads and writes are counted apart from input: a token lands in one counter only.
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Specs

PropertyValue
Id for the model fieldkimi-k3
VendorMoonshot
ProtocolsOpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages
Context1.05M tokens
Max output32.8K tokens

How to connect

You need an sk-aic-… key: the dashboard issues it after you sign in. Then set up your tool.

Claude Code

The model to work on is set by ANTHROPIC_MODEL; the other variables pin the models behind Claude Code’s names, or it may send an id we do not list. In detail: the Claude Code setup.

bash
unset ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.aicreator.app
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-aic-…
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=claude-opus-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=claude-sonnet-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=claude-haiku-5-5
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_FABLE_MODEL=claude-fable-5-2
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=kimi-k3
claude

Codex CLI

The key goes in the AIC_API_KEY variable. In detail: the Codex setup.

~/.codex/config.toml
model = "kimi-k3"
model_provider = "aic"

[model_providers.aic]
name = "AI Creator"
base_url = "https://api.aicreator.app/v1"
env_key = "AIC_API_KEY"
wire_api = "responses"
stream_idle_timeout_ms = 300000

Cline, OpenCode, Aider and the OpenAI SDK

The OpenAI Chat Completions protocol, model id kimi-k3. Tool setup: Cline, OpenCode, Aider. Check the key with a request:

bash
curl https://api.aicreator.app/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIC_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "kimi-k3", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

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