Open-weight LLMs you can run yourself › Kimi K3
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Moonshot · Open weights
Kimi K3 is an open-weight LLM from Moonshot with 2780B parameters. It needs about 1682 GB of memory at 4-bit — too big for one consumer device, so most people use it through a hosted provider.
| Parameters | 2780B |
| Memory to run | ~1682 GB (at 4-bit, rough estimate) |
| Downloads | 1.1M (last 30 days on Hugging Face) |
| Likes | 11.7K |
| License | Custom license |
| First uploaded | Jun 13, 2026 |
| Hosted from | $0.304 (per 1M input tokens · cheapest on OpenRouter) |
| Phone | iPhone · Android: too big |
| PC with a GPU | 8 GB: too big · 12 GB: too big · 16 GB: too big · 24 GB: too big · 32 GB: too big |
| PC or laptop, no GPU | 16 GB: too big · 32 GB: too big · 64 GB: too big |
| Mac | 16 GB: too big · 32 GB: too big · 64 GB: too big · 128 GB: too big |
huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Data: Hugging Face (official accounts), Oct 16, 2026 · memory is a rough estimate (4-bit for LLMs, 8-bit for image and video, plus 10%) · hosted price: OpenRouter