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Verdict
Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant (K3.1 Pro is the newest model). China-based company. Membership : Plus $15/mo, Pro $31/mo, Max $79/mo, Ultra $159/mo, billed annually; the Free plan includes limited K3.1 Pro use. Pay-as-you-go API at platform.kimi.ai. Review data-handling before sending sensitive inputs.
Long-context reading and agent tasks for users comfortable with a China-based service
Best for
Quick facts
- Free tier
- Free plan: limited use of K3.1 Pro on the web and in Kimi Work, basic agent credits, 1 agent task at a time, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects with 500MB storage. No K3.1 Pro Highspeed or Kimi Code.
- Starting price
- Free, from $15
- Platforms
- web
- Company
- Moonshot AI
Pricing
Kimi membership (kimi.ai). The page lists these as "Annual billing: effective monthly" prices; it does not show monthly-billing prices or the yearly totals.
| Plan | Price | Key limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Limited K3.1 Pro use; basic agent credits |
| Plus | $15/month, billed annually | Monthly-billing price not shown |
| Pro | $31/month, billed annually | Monthly-billing price not shown |
| Max | $79/month, billed annually | Monthly-billing price not shown |
| Ultra | $159/month, billed annually | Monthly-billing price not shown |
Prices checked 2026-10-26
Key capabilities
Works with
- text
- documents
Outputs
- text
API pricing
Pay-as-you-go, USD per 1M tokens, input / output. kimi-k3.1-pro: $2 / $10, cached input $0.20. kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeed: $4 / $20, cached input $0.20. kimi-k3: $3 / $15, cached input $0.30. kimi-k2.7-code: $0.95 / $4, cached input $0.19. kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed: $1.90 / $8, cached input $0.38. kimi-k2.6: $0.95 / $4, cached input $0.16. K3 series context 1,048,576 tokens; K2 series 262,144 tokens. K2 series: closed to newly registered users from 2026-10-31 (existing users not affected); Kimi plans to retire all K2 models by the end of December 2026 (stated plan, as of 2026-10-26).
Re-checked 2026-10-26 on platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat (tables are in the page source). K3 series cache writes are billed separately by TTL (5 minutes / 1 hour). platform.moonshot.ai redirects here. No subscription.
Features
- K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed are available on Kimi.ai and the Kimi API (as of 2026-10-26). Kimi says Highspeed runs 2-3x faster than K3.1 Pro.
- K3.1 Pro has a 1-million-token context window.
- Kimi says the full K3.1 Pro model weights will be released by 2026-11-04 (stated plan, as of 2026-10-26).
- Kimi Enterprise: K3.1 Pro is off by default at launch; administrators can enable it.
Get it
How to use Kimi on phones and tablets.
- Mobile web: Works in a mobile browser (responsive or dedicated mobile site).
Technical details
- Offline
- No
- API
- Yes
- Languages
- Not listed
- Difficulty
- Beginner-friendly
- Privacy
- Low
- Models
- Kimi K3.1 Pro (in-house), Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed (in-house), Kimi K3 (in-house), Kimi K2.7 Code (in-house; K2 series, retiring by end of December 2026), Kimi K2.7 Code highspeed (in-house; K2 series, retiring by end of December 2026), Kimi K2.6 (in-house; K2 series, retiring by end of December 2026)
What changed
- 2026-10-26 · plans — Added Kimi membership plans (Free, Plus, Pro, Max, Ultra; annual-billing monthly prices) and the Free plan's limits from Kimi's K3.1 Pro pricing page.
- 2026-10-26 · apiPricing — Added K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed API prices and the K2 retirement plan (new sign-ups lose K2 from 2026-10-31; all K2 models retired by end of December 2026); re-checked the other API prices.
- 2026-10-26 · features — Added K3.1 Pro launch notes: 1M-token context; full weights due by 2026-11-04 per Kimi.
- 2026-10-14 · apiPricing — API pay-as-you-go token prices from platform.kimi.ai (browser-verified). Company Moonshot AI. Consumer plans unpublished.
Sources & notes(4)
- Company: https://www.kimi.com/
- Free tier: https://www.kimi.ai/resources/kimi-k3-1-pro-pricing
- API pricing: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
- Features: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
- Checked 2026-10-26 (from catalog copy)