Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct benchmarks, pricing and specs
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct is a Moonshot Kimi model released on April 9, 2025 that takes text and image input and produces text. Its price is not published and accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context.
- Context window
- 128K
Data verified August 6, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-12
Key facts
- Provider
- Moonshot Kimi
- Model family
- Kimi-VL
- Release date
- April 9, 2025
- Status
- Current
- Access
- open weights
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text, multimodal
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct pricing
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Moonshot Kimi's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Strengths, cautions and best uses
Strengths
- Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct records open-weight access for text and image inputs and a published 128,000-token context window
Cautions
- Hosted token price and infrastructure cost are not represented; measure deployment and operating cost directly
Best for
- Private text-and-image evaluation
Alternatives to Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
GPT-4.1
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From OpenAI
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From Google
Kimi-Dev-72B
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct FAQ
What is the context window of Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct?
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context. That ranks #40 of 44 current text models by context length.
Is Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct open source or API only?
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct is released as open weights that you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are GPT-4.1 (1.05M context window vs 128K), GPT-4.1 mini (1.05M context window vs 128K), Gemini 2.5 Pro (1.05M context window vs 128K) and Kimi-Dev-72B.
Sources
- Kimi-VL · Moonshot AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/kimi-vl-a3b-instruct
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