Moonshot Kimi API Platform international
- Free allowance
- No free credit is stated for a registration outside mainland China.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda recharge of at least USD 1 is required before the API can be used; kimi-k3.1-pro is unlocked by a successful top-up (minimum USD 1)
- Evidence
- documented16 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | no free credit is stated for a registration outside mainland China. The API needs a recharge of at least USD 1 first, and a USD 5 voucher is granted once cumulative recharge reaches USD 5. The mainland RMB 15 new-user voucher is a separate offer on a separate platform; accounts and keys of the two platforms are independent unit none; metered on none; the USD 5 voucher is a purchase-matched bonus, not a free grant; whether the console grants any other credit at sign-up is unverified: behind a sign-up. One page names 'vouchers granted from new-user verification' that cannot be used for Kimi K3 without saying who receives them or how much |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | write-gated nothing is callable before a paid recharge of at least USD 1; the USD 5 voucher only matches paid recharge |
| Identity | card sign-up uses an emailed verification code or a Google account; using the API needs a prior top-up of at least USD 1. The help page lists WeChat Pay and Alipay QR payments for individual top-ups and the terms name a credit or debit card as a payment method; which methods the international top-up page accepts is unverified: behind a sign-up |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest |
| Tooling | OpenAI-compatible REST at https://api.moonshot.ai/v1, with Chat Completions, Responses and an Anthropic-compatible Messages interface; a console Playground; a balance API |
| Composes with | top up USD 1 to unlock the API, then USD 5 cumulative for a USD 5 voucher; usage deducts half from cash and half from vouchers; the voucher does not count towards the rate-limit tier |
| Reliability | not assessed: no request was sent to the endpoint. A Tier0 account runs one request at a time |
| Evidence note | documented the USD 1 minimum, the USD 5 voucher, the tier table, the sign-in methods and the regional separation are quoted from the vendor's international docs; the console sign-up and top-up pages are behind a login and were not read, so any further sign-up grant and the accepted payment methods are unverified |
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Evidence 16
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits.md | a recharge of at least USD 1 is required before the API can be used, and a USD 5 voucher follows once cumulative recharge reaches USD 5 |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits.md | the voucher does not raise the rate-limit tier |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits | the USD 1 tier allows concurrency 1, 3 RPM, 500,000 TPM and 1,500,000 TPD |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits | the USD 10 tier allows concurrency 15, 100 RPM, 2,000,000 TPM and no daily token cap |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/account-security-and-sign-in.md | sign-in on the international platform works with an emailed verification code |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/account-security-and-sign-in.md | a Google account is the other sign-in method |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/troubleshooting.md | the flagship model needs a successful top-up of at least USD 1 |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/troubleshooting.md | platform.kimi.ai is the platform for registrations outside mainland China |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/troubleshooting.md | an international account is separate from a mainland account, so a mainland voucher does not carry over |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/troubleshooting.md | the vendor points to a console Playground for testing before a top-up |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/account-and-payments.md | the help page lists WeChat Pay and Alipay QR payments for individual top-ups |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/agreement/modeluse.md | the platform terms name a credit or debit card as a payment method |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/agreement/modeluse.md | an individual account needs the age of 18 or the local minimum age of consent |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/platform-changelog.md | usage is deducted half from cash balance and half from vouchers |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat | kimi-k3.1-pro is priced at USD 2.00 per MTok input and USD 10.00 per MTok output |
| 2026-11-03 | platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/open-code.md | a new-user verification voucher, if granted, does not cover Kimi K3 |
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer