https://josedavidbaena.com Production notes and source-backed analysis on distributed systems, messaging infrastructure, open-source internals, and model engineering. en-us josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kimi-k3/05-api-vs-self-hosting-cost https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kimi-k3/05-api-vs-self-hosting-cost Model Kimi K3 API and self-hosting costs with real token mixes, topology quotes, measured throughput, redundancy, storage, and engineering overhead. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) kimi-k3api-pricingself-hostingcost-optimizationinference https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kimi-k3/01-hardware-requirements https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/kimi-k3/01-hardware-requirements Kimi K3 activates about 104.2B parameters per token, but its 1.561 TB snapshot still needs a multi-GPU memory, cache, storage, and network plan. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) kimi-k3gpuinferencemixture-of-expertshardware https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/frontier-model-engineering/03-long-context-storage-system https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/frontier-model-engineering/03-long-context-storage-system Separate context limits from resident state, prefix reuse, retrieval, compaction, token cost, eviction, and measured task value. Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) long-contextkv-cacheretrievalinferenceobservability