Model
Kimi K3 — EU sovereign variant
EU sovereignComing soonKimi K3 — EU sovereign variant: coming soon to Frontière AI's OpenAI-compatible API, planned as EU sovereign. Licence, specifications, jurisdiction.
About this model
This entry is a planned deployment of Kimi K3 that Frontière AI intends to run on servers it rents in the EU. It is not served yet; the kimi-k3 entry already serves the same model through another host. The weights will be identical: Moonshot AI's Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.8T total parameters and 104B active per token, a 1,048,576-token context window and native understanding of text, images and video. Thinking is always on, with low, high or max effort. Moonshot AI positions it for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and reasoning. The Kimi K3 License permits running and modifying the weights, with added conditions above set revenue and user thresholds.
Sources, checked on 23 September 2026: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 ↗ · Kimi K3 License ↗
Specifications
- API model id
- kimi-k3-souverain
- Availability
- Coming soon
- Hosting jurisdiction
- EU sovereign
- Served via
- self-hosted EU servers
- Publisher
- Moonshot AI
- Parameters
- 2.8T (104B active)
- Licence
- Kimi K3 License
- Context window
- 1M
Open weights & AI Act facts
Factual characteristics of this model's weights — stated, not certified. Under the EU AI Act, whether a deployment is compliant depends on the model, your role and your use case.
- Open weights
- Weights public — use governed by the licence above
- AI Act class
- GPAI — general-purpose AI
- Systemic risk
- Not assessed by us — training compute not published, or too close to the 10²⁵ FLOP threshold to call
- Data retention
- None — Frontière AI stores no prompt or completion
What its label means
Not callable yet: this is a planned deployment. The weights are public, but no server runs this model today — it goes live, with a real measured price, only once one does. A model never goes live on a placeholder tariff.
How we draw the line: GDPR vs. the CLOUD Act →Pricing
It carries no price until a provider actually serves it.
Compare every Kimi model's API price →FAQ
Is Kimi K3 — EU sovereign variant GDPR-compliant on Frontière AI?
Not callable yet. Kimi K3 — EU sovereign variant is planned as EU sovereign (self-hosted EU servers); it will carry that label once live.
Under which licence is Kimi K3 — EU sovereign variant released?
Kimi K3 License — this is not a permissive Apache- or MIT-style licence. Worth flagging if you run a legal review of licences before deployment.
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