# Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro — retained record

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23rd October 2026 - Link Blog
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (via) Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026".
They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same).
The US dollar pricing is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1 Sol and half the price of Claude Opus 5.5.
Moonshot's own benchmarks show Kimi as approximately level with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra - beating them on a few benchmarks, coming close on others.
Artificial Analysis scored Kimi at 55 - ahead of Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon (all at 53) and behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58).
This is the first time a (soon-to-be) open weight model has scored this highly against the frontier.
I tried it out via the Moonshot API using the llm openai endpoint command I added to LLM 0.32 back in August:
llm openai endpoint \
  https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 \
  --key kimi \
  -m kimi-k3.1-pro \
  "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" \
  --responses \
  -o reasoning_effort low \
  > kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stdout.txt \
  2> kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stderr.txt
llm openai endpoint can run prompts against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint but doesn't log the results, hence the extra options to save stdout and stderr (the reasoning trace).
Here are the pelicans I got for Kimi K3.1 Pro on the three reasoning levels it supports - low, medium, and max. This is max:
For comparison, I ran fresh pelicans against Kimi K3 on those three reasoning levels.
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