Kimi-K3-NVFP4
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Kimi-K3-NVFP4: Specs, GPU Requirements and License
Kimi-K3-NVFP4 is a recent General release in the Kimi family, certified from its immutable official source revision.
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Release statusRecent · Recent
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Commercial stateUnknown / Not Recommendable
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Architecture, strengths and use cases
Kimi-K3-NVFP4 is an official self-hostable Moonshot AI release in the Kimi General track. It uses The manufacturer has not published this information., carries The manufacturer has not published this information., supports a verified context window of 0 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.
Kimi-K3-NVFP4 uses The manufacturer has not published this information. with The manufacturer has not published this information.. The stored architecture profile records layers, hidden width , attention heads and a 0 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.
Verified The manufacturer has not published this information. architecture
Official checkpoint and pipeline evidence
Official NVFP4 checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing
Certified checkpoints and quantizations
Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.
Recommended hardware
Use only the listed certified runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.
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Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.
License and self-hosting considerations
The full 0B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.
Kimi-K3-NVFP4 is published under other. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.
Unknown / Not Recommendable. Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.
Alternatives and sibling variants
Kimi-K3, Kimi-K2.6, Kimi-K2.5, Kimi-K2.6-DFlash, Kimi-K2.6-Eagle3, Kimi-K2.5-Thinking-Eagle3, Kimi-K2.6-NVFP4, Kimi-K2.5-NVFP4, Kimi K3, Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.5
Release timeline
moonshot/kimi/kimi-k3-nvfp4 @ 495fa6b4e71813bde549082c63677b3d898c0b6759643a08723d0c4fa585a983
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Kimi-K3-NVFP4 require?
The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.
Which runtimes support Kimi-K3-NVFP4?
No runtime is presented as supported until upstream evidence is verified.
Can Kimi-K3-NVFP4 be used commercially?
The stored commercial classification is Unknown / Not Recommendable. Consult the official other terms for the final obligations.
Official references
Last verified: 2026-09-03