← All updates Databricks Update One-Pager Light version
databricks Platform · Updated Aug 6, 2026

Moonshot AI Kimi K3 now available as a Databricks-hosted model

Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks hosted model.

What it does

Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks hosted model. This 2.8 trillion parameter mixture of experts (MoE) model has native vision capabilities, supports a 1 million token context window, and is designed for long horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs.

Why it matters

For production workloads, Databricks recommends priority pay per token, also referred to as priority mode, for latency sensitive workloads that need more consistent performance under load.

Key capabilities
Pay-per-token regions
Pay-per-token regions.
Provisioned throughput regions
Provisioned throughput regions.
Architecture
Databricks Platform → Platform
In short

Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks hosted model. This 2.8 trillion parameter mixture of experts (MoE) model has native vision capabilities, supports a 1 million token context window, and is designed for long horizon coding, knowledge work…

Read the full documentation ↗
Key takeaway
Model Serving now supports Kimi K3 as a Databricks hosted model.
2026-08-06-moonshot-ai-kimi-k3-now-available-as-a-databricks-hosted-model Generated by the Databricks Updates Agent · browse all updates