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A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable C99: no BLAS, no framework, no GPU.
- 9.3kGitHub stars
- +97new stars, week of Oct 25
- #18in Inference and training this week
kimi-k3-in-c at a glance
- Category
- Inference and training
- Website
- medium.com/@fareedkhandev/building-kimi-k3-in-c-to-run-a-2-8t-model-on-consumer-hardware-a5792cbf3b59
Is kimi-k3-in-c growing? Usage data
In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, kimi-k3-in-c ranked #166 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #18 in Inference and training, with a momentum score of 49 out of 100.
Show the weekly numbers
| Week of | New stars |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 1.9k |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 515 |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 436 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 424 |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 657 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 304 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 593 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 204 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 126 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 133 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 105 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 97 |
The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.
kimi-k3-in-c alternatives
Other LLM inference and training tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:
| Rank | Tool | Stars | Downloads/wk |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | dsh-our-free-modeldsh-our-free-model is a dsh plugin that provides DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and other models without login, sign-up or API key. | 54.3k | – |
| #2 | magpiemagpie is a local gateway and app that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use any provider's model. | 26.9k | – |
| #3 | StrataStrata is a local inference engine and app that runs large open models like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware with… | 37.1k | – |
| #4 | edge0edge0 is an open-source streaming inference framework that runs large sparse mixture-of-experts models on consumer hardware by streaming… | 8.9k | – |
| #5 | OmniRouteOmniRoute is an open-source AI gateway that routes requests across many model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with… | 83.2k | 106k |
| #6 | CLIProxyAPICLIProxyAPI is a Go proxy server that exposes CLI coding accounts like Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI through OpenAI, Gemini and… | 57.1k | – |
kimi-k3-in-c FAQ
How popular is kimi-k3-in-c?
kimi-k3-in-c has 9.3k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 97 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 456 a week. That made it #18 among LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.
What are the best alternatives to kimi-k3-in-c?
Other LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: dsh-our-free-model (#1), magpie (#2), Strata (#3), edge0 (#4), OmniRoute (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.
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