Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is an AI model from Moonshot AI (Kimi). A large mixture-of-experts LLM from Kimi with linear attention architecture, optimized for long-context instruction following at 48B total parameters with 3B active.
Specifications
Canonical IDmoonshot-kimi-linear-48b-a3b-instruct
StatusActive
CreatorMoonshot AI (Kimi)Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
14.4
#309
Coding Index
14.2
#234
Math Index
36.3
#164
MMLU-Pro
0.6
#250
GPQA
0.4
#357
HLE
0.0
#444
LiveCodeBench
0.4
#178
IFBench
0.3
#337
Time to First Token
0.00s
#152
SciCode
0.2
#337
AIME 2025
0.4
#164
LCR
0.3
#220
TerminalBench Hard
0.1
#183
TAU2
0.0
#379
Output TPS
0.0
#421

Capabilities

Input0/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output0/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo262K$1.15$8.00Available
Kimi K2 Turbo256K$1.15$8.00Available
Kimi K2.5 Non-ReasoningAvailable
Kimi K2 Instruct V0Available
Kimi K2 Preview262K$0.600$2.50Available
Kimi K2 Turbo Preview262K$1.15$8.00Available
Kimi K2.5 Thinking$0.600$3.00Available
Kimi K2.6 Thinking$0.950$4.00Available
Kimi262K$0.200$2.00Available
Kimi Linear 48B A3B InstructCurrent
Kimi Thinking Preview131K$0.600$2.50Available

Model IDs