# GitHub — Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot

- Company: GitHub (github.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-06T17:27:25+00:00
- Category: availability-change
- Subject: Copilot
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Kimi K3
- Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-06-kimi-k3-is-now-available-in-github-copilot
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3635-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-06-kimi-k3-is-now-available-in-github-copilot:

> 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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