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Kimi (Moonshot AI)

Kimi is Moonshot AI's assistant and model family, offered as the kimi.com agent workspace and as a pay-as-you-go API. The Kimi K2.7 Code model is listed at $0.95 input and $4.00 output per million tokens.

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Description of Kimi (Moonshot AI)

Kimi is an AI assistant and model family from Moonshot AI. The kimi.com workspace combines chat with agent tasks: it promotes a Swarm mode that runs many agents in parallel and a Goal mode for longer jobs, along with deep research, document, spreadsheet and PDF work, slide generation, website and game building, plugins and scheduled tasks. The newest model, Kimi K3, is presented as built for agentic programming and knowledge work. Moonshot also runs the Kimi API platform for developers, which is a separate product from the Kimi membership plans and from Kimi Code.

On the API platform, model inference is billed pay-as-you-go with no subscription. Prices per million tokens are $0.95 for input on a cache miss, $0.19 for cached input and $4.00 for output on the kimi-k2.7-code model. A higher-speed variant costs $1.90, $0.38 and $8.00. Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 input and $4.00 output, and Kimi K3 costs $3.00 input, $0.30 cached input and $15.00 output, with cache writes billed separately by time-to-live. File content extraction and storage APIs are temporarily free, but extracted text passed to a model is billed as input.

No free inference tier or credit is listed on the pricing page. Prices exclude taxes, which are calculated at checkout based on your location. Membership plan prices for kimi.com were not shown on the pages reviewed.

Features of Kimi (Moonshot AI)

  1. kimi.com workspace with chat, parallel Swarm agents, Goal mode, deep research, slides, documents and scheduled tasks.
  2. Pay-as-you-go API with automatic prompt caching and discounted cached input on K2 and K3 series models.
  3. Code-focused kimi-k2.7-code model at $0.95 input and $4.00 output per million tokens, plus a higher-speed variant.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Kimi API cost for coding?

The kimi-k2.7-code model costs $0.95 per million input tokens on a cache miss, $0.19 for cached input and $4.00 per million output tokens. There is no subscription; usage is billed pay-as-you-go.

Is the Kimi API the same as a Kimi membership?

No. Moonshot says API inference is billed separately from Kimi membership plans and from Kimi Code, so a membership does not include API usage.

Website: https://www.kimi.com/

Company: Moonshot AI

Key facts

Moonshot AI's agent workspace plus a pay-as-you-go API with a code-focused K2.7 model and the larger K3. No free API tier listed. K2.7 Code $0.95 in / $4.00 out per million tokens.

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Public API Yes
Self-hostable Not verified
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Can a general AI assistant replace it? For chatting, kimi.com is the simpler route. Use the API when you want Kimi models inside your own code or agent tools and pay only for tokens.
Last verified 2026-10-12 by editor

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Update history

  1. 2026-10-12 · ai alternative note updated (editor)
  2. 2026-10-12 · editor verdict updated (editor)
  3. 2026-10-12 · api available updated (editor)
  4. 2026-10-12 · pricing page url updated (editor)
  5. 2026-10-12 · pricing model updated (editor)

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