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          "A third-party cyber evaluation by the UK AI Security Institute and CAISI",
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          "Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000",
          "Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect",
          "Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable",
          "Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow",
          "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones",
          "Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear",
          "Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page"
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        "http": "curl http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"moonshotai/Kimi-K3\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n    \"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"\n  }'"
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          "Nothing is hosted, so the Kimi K3 Licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
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          "moonshot.ai, www.moonshot.ai, kimi.com and www.kimi.com answered /.well-known/security.txt with an HTML page and platform.kimi.ai with 404 on 21 and 24 October 2026, so no security.txt was found. The Kimi-K3 GitHub repository has no SECURITY.md."
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      "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for all five NeoQuasar repositories, and the code is in a public GitHub repository (checked 2026-10-25).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the MIT licence named in each card's metadata and in the GitHub repository's LICENSE. Nobody sells per-call access and no inference provider serves it. Running it costs the hardware, 0.03 GB for Kronos-mini with its tokeniser and 0.43 GB for Kronos-base with its tokeniser, in FP32 (checked 2026-10-25).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
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          "Under 0.5 GB for every public size, so it runs on a CPU, Apple MPS or a small GPU",
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          "Training data listed by exchange with observation counts, filtering and a June 2024 end"
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          "A 512-bar context for the small and base sizes, and the mean forecast only, without quantiles",
          "The sample data the quickstart reads was deleted on 13 April 2026, and the cards' licence link points at a missing branch",
          "No safety results, no security contact and no publisher reply in its Hugging Face discussions since November 2025",
          "The publisher's forecasting results come from its own paper, with no independent benchmark found"
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          "Clone https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos and `pip install -r requirements.txt`, then load `Kronos.from_pretrained(\"NeoQuasar/Kronos-small\")` and `KronosTokenizer.from_pretrained(\"NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base\")` and wrap them in KronosPredictor",
          "Pair Kronos-mini with Kronos-Tokenizer-2k and Kronos-small or Kronos-base with Kronos-Tokenizer-base, the cards' pairing",
          "The examples read examples/data/XSHG_5min_600977.csv, which no longer exists; point them at tests/data/regression_input.csv, 2,500 five-minute bars",
          "Keep the lookback at or under max_context, 512 bars, and pass the future timestamps you want as y_timestamp, since the calendar fields come from them",
          "Raise sample_count for a steadier forecast, but expect only the mean back; call the lower-level auto_regressive_inference yourself if you need the paths",
          "Treat forecasts as model output to check, not signals; the README says its own backtest pipeline isn't a production trading system"
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        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kronos-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b"
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        "key": "reach",
        "kimi-k3": 50,
        "kronos": 55,
        "name": "Reach",
        "weight": 25
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "edge": "kimi-k3",
        "key": "risk",
        "kimi-k3": 65,
        "kronos": 50,
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        "weight": 20
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        "kimi-k3": 65,
        "kronos": 60,
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        "weight": 10
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        "by": 20,
        "edge": "kronos",
        "key": "upkeep",
        "kimi-k3": 41,
        "kronos": 61,
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        "weight": 10
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      "kimi-k3": "Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.",
      "kronos": "Forecasts the next price bars from a history of up to 512 candlestick bars. Every size fits in under 0.5 GB and runs on a CPU, but only through the publisher's own Python package. Nobody has benchmarked it independently, its quickstart data was deleted from the repository, and the publisher hasn't replied since November 2025."
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  "markdown": "Kimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kronos's 55.2 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Kronos leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Kimi K3: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #30 of 110 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kimi-k3.json\n- Kronos: grade C, 55.2/100, rank #86 of 110 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kronos.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kronos.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 3260 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Kimi K3 (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with a multi-node GPU cluster who want an open 1M-context agent model for long coding and research work\n\nAhead on:\n- Risk, 65 against 50\n- Agent interface, 65 against 60\n\nWatch for: 1,561 GB of files at its smallest publisher build, far beyond any single machine\n\n### Kronos (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a quick local forecast or synthetic sample of a candlestick series on modest hardware, for research or as one input among others.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 55 against 50\n- Documentation and upkeep, 61 against 41\n\nWatch for: Runs only through the publisher's own PyTorch code from GitHub, in no named runtime and with no quantised build\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kimi K3 | Kronos | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 50 | 55 | Kronos +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 65 | 50 | Kimi K3 +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 60 | Kimi K3 +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 41 | 61 | Kronos +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **55.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kimi K3 | Kronos |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Moonshot AI | Yu Shi (shiyu-coder, NeoQuasar), Tsinghua University |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Kimi K3 License (modified MIT) | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-02 | 2026-04-13 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | none | 43k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Kimi K3.** Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.\n\n**Kronos.** Forecasts the next price bars from a history of up to 512 candlestick bars. Every size fits in under 0.5 GB and runs on a CPU, but only through the publisher's own Python package. Nobody has benchmarked it independently, its quickstart data was deleted from the repository, and the publisher hasn't replied since November 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Kimi K3\n\n1. Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000\n2. Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect\n3. Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable\n4. Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow\n5. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones\n6. Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear\n7. Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page\n\n### Kronos\n\n1. Clone https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos and `pip install -r requirements.txt`, then load `Kronos.from_pretrained(\"NeoQuasar/Kronos-small\")` and `KronosTokenizer.from_pretrained(\"NeoQuasar/Kronos-Tokenizer-base\")` and wrap them in KronosPredictor\n2. Pair Kronos-mini with Kronos-Tokenizer-2k and Kronos-small or Kronos-base with Kronos-Tokenizer-base, the cards' pairing\n3. The examples read examples/data/XSHG_5min_600977.csv, which no longer exists; point them at tests/data/regression_input.csv, 2,500 five-minute bars\n4. Keep the lookback at or under max_context, 512 bars, and pass the future timestamps you want as y_timestamp, since the calendar fields come from them\n5. Raise sample_count for a steadier forecast, but expect only the mean back; call the lower-level auto_regressive_inference yourself if you need the paths\n6. Treat forecasts as model output to check, not signals; the README says its own backtest pipeline isn't a production trading system\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kimi K3 or Kronos?\n\nKimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kronos's 55.2 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Kronos leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-kronos.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-kronos.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"kimi-k3\", \"b\": \"kronos\"}`. 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