Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot

GitHub announced general availability of Kimi K3, an open-weight model, in GitHub Copilot. The model offers frontier-level agentic coding abilities at a pricing of $3 per 1M input tokens, $15 per 1M output tokens, and $0.30 per 1M cached input tokens. It is hosted on Fireworks AI and available across multiple Copilot plans and tools. The rollout is temporarily paused due to a GitHub Actions incident but will resume.

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Kimi K3, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. The model shows frontier-level abilities on agentic coding with highly cost-effective pricing.
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Announced: 06 Aug 2026 17:27 UTC
Detected: 07 Aug 2026 01:02 UTC (+7h after)

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