Moonshot Kimi
kimi.com · 4 records in Coding subscriptions, Compute, Inference, Storage · JSON
Records 4
- paidMoonshot Kimi
Coding subscriptionsidentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- paidMoonshot Kimi Hosted Agents sandbox
Computeidentity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityMoonshot Kimi API Platform
Inferencefree tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-28
- fails: quotaMoonshot / Kimi API Files
Storagefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
Moonshot Kimi
Coding subscriptions- Free allowance
- No free tier on the current ladder; Go, Plus, Pro, Max and Ultra are all paid
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-ratemonthly shared quota pool; Kimi Code on the new ladder has a rolling 5-hour limit and no weekly limit; the old ladder keeps both
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | no free tier on the current ladder; Go, Plus, Pro, Max and Ultra are all paid unit none; metered on none; the ladder is denominated in CNY on the domestic purchase page |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | card a paid subscription. The domestic ladder is priced in CNY, so a card that settles in CNY is the practical gate |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Interface | cli, rest Kimi Code, which the pricing page states is included on Plus and above and excluded from Go |
| Tooling | Kimi Code CLI |
| Composes with | a shared monthly quota pool covers web and Kimi Code together, so heavy chat use reduces the coding allowance |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The tier names differ too. Both facts are recorded rather than reconciled, because the USD ladder was third-party-sourced and this page is first-party. |
| Evidence note | documented the CNY ladder is first-party and quoted today. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.kimi.com/help/membership/membership-pricing | current domestic ladder in CNY: Go 49 a month, Plus 99, Pro 199, Max 699, Ultra 1,399, with annual totals 468, 948, 1,908, 6,708 and 13,428; Go excludes Kimi Code; the shared monthly pool does not carry over unused quota |
Unknown values 4
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Kimi and zai ladders do not match
- Free allowance
- No free tier: each hosted-agent session runs in its own cloud sandbox billed by runtime, with model tokens and plugin calls metered separately
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedno free tier is stated, and the three meters are separate, so a free model tier would not make the sandbox free
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | no free tier: each hosted-agent session runs in its own cloud sandbox billed by runtime, with model tokens and plugin calls metered separately unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the hosted-agent pricing document was read on 2026-10-22 (Chinese). It states three separate meters: sandbox runtime, model tokens and plugin calls, and publishes no free tier, which confirms paid-only |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | platform.kimi.com/docs/pricing/hosted-agents.md | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | platform.kimi.com/docs/pricing/hosted-agents.md | '托管智能体的每个会话运行在一个独立的云沙箱中，沙箱按运行时长计费' - each hosted-agent session runs in its own cloud sandbox and the sandbox bills by runtime - with model tokens and plugin calls billed separately, quoted |
More fields 5
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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| billing model | unclassified |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a session's sandbox bills by runtime; the document states no cap and points at the model page for tokens"} |
| free tier kind | none |
| reclassified from | dead |
Unknown values 9
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field
Moonshot Kimi API Platform
Inference- Free allowance
- An RMB 15 voucher granted on registration, valid for 3 months from issue, only for new users who register with a mainland China mobile number.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- country-phoneno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaRMB 15 voucher, expires 3 months after issue; afterwards requests need a top-up balance or return 403
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-28checked 2026-10-28 (live); stale on 2026-11-28
| Free tier | An RMB 15 voucher granted on registration, valid for 3 months from issue, only for new users who register with a mainland China mobile number. It is applied automatically and deducted before the top-up balance. With a zero balance after the voucher, API requests return a 403 error. No free grant for a registration outside mainland China is stated on the page read unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; regional-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota the voucher is small and time-boxed, and it is granted only to mainland mobile registrations |
| Identity | country-phone the voucher is granted to new users who register with a mainland China mobile number |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | the voucher is spent before the top-up balance, so a mainland account runs on it first and then on paid balance |
| Reliability | not assessed: no request was sent to the endpoint |
| Evidence note | documented the voucher rules are the vendor's help page; any non-mainland free grant or minimum top-up on the international platform is unverified |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | www.kimi.com/en/help/kimi-api/api-free-trial | the free voucher is for new users registering with a mainland China mobile number |
| 2026-10-28 | www.kimi.com/en/help/kimi-api/api-free-trial | the voucher is RMB 15 on registration |
| 2026-10-28 | www.kimi.com/en/help/kimi-api/api-free-trial | the voucher expires 3 months after issue |
| 2026-10-28 | www.kimi.com/en/help/kimi-api/api-free-trial | after the voucher a top-up balance is required, otherwise requests return 403 |
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
Moonshot / Kimi API Files
Storage- Free allowance
- 10 GiB total storage per organization (default); 1,000 files; 100 MB per file
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap100 MB per file
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 10 GiB total storage per organization (default); 1,000 files; 100 MB per file unit objects; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap 100 MB; 1,000 files; 10 GiB total. Deletion is irreversible and mandatory to free quota. |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | Free — file upload/extract are not billed; only tokens are. |
| Per-object cap | 100 MB per file (100000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown OpenAI-compatible /v1/files; also session filesystem browsing at /v1/sessions/{id}/filesystem |
| Tooling | openai-python with base_url https://api.moonshot.cn/v1; curl |
| Composes with | 10 GiB per org, and projects under the 2026-09-01-beta kimi-api-version header scope lists per project — a possible multiplicative axis, unverified. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | platform.kimi.com/docs/api/files-delete | '已上传文件会占用组织总存储配额（默认 10 GiB）；达到配额上限后，新的上传会被拒绝' |
| 2026-10-21 | moonshot-ai.gitbook.io/moonshot-ai/api-documentation/files | 'Each user can upload a maximum of 1,000 files, with each file not exceeding 100MB in size. The total size of all uploaded files must not exceed 10GB.' |
| 2026-10-21 | platform.kimi.com/docs/llms-full.txt | '组织总存储配额（默认 10 GiB）' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "10 GiB total storage per organization (default); 1,000 files; 100 MB per file","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read