Running Kimi-K3 Locally Costs Up to 1 Million Euros, Jokes German Tech Blogger
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-07-28
In a recent discussion, German tech blogger Florian Gallwitz highlighted the exorbitant hardware costs required to run Moonshot's Kimi-K3 model locally. He joked that anyone considering running the model might need to 'sell a kidney' and should prepare a budget of at least half a million to a full million euros. This reflects the staggering compute and financial barriers associated with top-tier large language models today.
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