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Kimi: pricing, limits and what it's actually good at

Moonshot's assistant built around 1M-token reading

Made by	Moonshot AI
Official site	https://www.kimi.com
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android
Free tier	Yes
Pricing	Membership annual plans work out to CNY 39 / 79 / 159 / 559 / 1,119 per month, alongside a free tier; API K3.1 Pro CNY 13 input and CNY 68 output per million tokens (CNY 1.3 on cache hits) (checked 2026-10-29)
Context window	1,048,576 tokens (K3 series); 262,144 tokens on the K2 series (checked 2026-10-29)
Non-English	Chinese-first product where interface, docs and marketing all lead with Chinese, and long Chinese documents are the core use case (checked 2026-10-29)
Availability	Directly reachable in mainland China with no proxy, and platform.kimi.com serves the China region (checked 2026-10-29).

What Kimi does well

Swallows a whole book and answers against the full text
Agent tasks and deep research run inside the same window
Chinese long-document structuring beats most rivals I have tried
Five membership tiers make the ladder easy to pick from

Where it falls short

Concurrency limits bite at Chinese peak times
No desktop client beyond the browser, so tabs pile up
Free tier quota runs out before heavy work finishes

Who should use it

Reading long reports and papers
Organizing Chinese source material
Light agent and research tasks

What it feels like day to day

Long material is what I keep it for: a book, a contract, a folder of meeting notes goes in at once and comes back in whatever structure I ask for. Coding and file cleanup sit in the same window, so I do not switch products mid-task. The free quota ends before the heavy read finishes, so I save it for a paid month. Peak-hour queueing is the one thing that regularly interrupts me.

Compared with

No head-to-head page yet — see the full table.

FAQ

Is Kimi free?

Yes — there is a free tier you can start on. Whether it's enough depends on how much you use it; limits are on the official pricing page.

How much text can Kimi handle at once?

1,048,576 tokens (K3 series); 262,144 tokens on the K2 series (checked 2026-10-29)

Is Kimi available in my country?

Directly reachable in mainland China with no proxy, and platform.kimi.com serves the China region (checked 2026-10-29).

Sources: https://www.kimi.com/resources/kimi-k3-1-pro-pricing · https://platform.kimi.com/docs/pricing/chat · https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs/pricing/chat — checked 2026-10-29.