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Kimi K3.1 Pro Is Open-Weight, But What Does It Really Cost to Run?
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The Brief
- Moonshot AI has released the open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro.
- The model is a Mixture-of-Experts design with 2.8 trillion total parameters.
- It offers a context window of over one million tokens.
Why it matters
The weights are openly available, but the source questions what it realistically costs developers to run a model of this size.
Who’s affected
- Teams interested in self-hosting open-weight large language models
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
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- #inference-cost
Moonshot AI has released the weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro , a massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and a context window of over one million tokens. That sounds like a major win for open-weight AI. But there's a practical question developers and…
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DEV Community article examines the running costs of the open-weight model
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Kimi K3.1 Pro Is Open-Weight, But What Does It Really Cost to Run?