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A gateway is giving Kimi K3 away at $0 — what to check before you point production at a free frontier model
TokenRouter, a third-party OpenAI-compatible gateway, is listing Kimi K3 at $0 in / $0 out alongside a paid tier at Moonshot's standard $3/$15, plus a developer-credit promotion that expires today. Similar offers appear regularly, and they are genuinely useful for evaluation work. They are also a category where the interesting terms are never in the headline.
The checks that matter, in order:
The rest of this analysis — 6 more paragraphs — plus the source, is on the paid plans.
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