What is Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is the company behind Kimi, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API Platform. Its current offer spans consumer and developer memberships, coding tools, long-context multimodal models, and pay-as-you-go APIs.

Core offerings

  • Kimi chat, agents, research, documents, sheets, slides, websites, and scheduled tasks.
  • Kimi Code for CLI, VS Code, and compatible third-party coding tools.
  • Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Kimi K2.6 through the API platform.
  • OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints plus tool calling, caching, and structured output.

Pricing

As of July 22, 2026, Kimi’s official annual-billing membership page lists Adagio at US$0, Moderato at US$15 per month (US$180 yearly), Allegretto at US$31 per month (US$372 yearly), Allegro at US$79 per month (US$948 yearly), and Vivace at US$159 per month (US$1,908 yearly). The same page displays month-to-month reference prices of US$19, US$39, US$99, and US$199 respectively.

Moderato includes more agent credits, documents/sheets/slides work, research, website deployment, agent multitasking, and Kimi Code. Allegretto lists twice the agent credits and five times Kimi Code credits; Allegro lists five times agent credits, 15 times Kimi Code credits, and up to a 1M-token K3 chat context; Vivace raises those multipliers to 10 times and 30 times. Higher tiers also expand scheduled tasks, projects, storage, concurrency, and swarm subagents.

API billing is separate and usage-based. Per million tokens, Kimi K3 costs US$0.30 for cache-hit input, US$3 for cache-miss input, and US$15 for output with a 1,048,576-token context. Kimi K2.7 Code costs US$0.19, US$0.95, and US$4 respectively; its HighSpeed variant costs US$0.38, US$1.90, and US$8. Kimi K2.6 costs US$0.16, US$0.95, and US$4. The API requires at least a US$1 recharge to start, with rate limits increasing by cumulative recharge tier.

Model footprint

Kimi K3 is the flagship long-horizon coding and knowledge-work model with a 1M-token context. K2.7 Code is a 256K-context coding model with text, image, and video input; HighSpeed uses the same model at higher output speed. K2.6 is a 256K-context general-purpose multimodal model. Membership coding quota and general API billing are separate commercial systems.

Why select Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is worth considering for long-context agent work, multimodal coding, and competitively priced API access. Buyers should distinguish Kimi membership benefits from pay-as-you-go platform API charges when planning spend.

Official sources: Kimi membership pricing, Kimi Code overview, Kimi Code membership benefits, Kimi K3 API pricing, Kimi K2.7 Code pricing, Kimi K2.6 pricing, Kimi API recharge and limits.