Kimi
Chinese assistant with a top-20 open model and agents.
FreeOpen source
- Best for
- Long documents, slides and agent tasks
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, API
- License
- Kimi K3 License (custom)
What’s good
- Kimi K3 ranks in LMArena's top 20
- Open weights you can download
- Good at slides, long files and agent tasks
Downsides
- Free plan barely includes the best model
- Pricing pages are confusing and partly China-only
- Model is 2.8 trillion parameters, not for home PCs
The details.
- For developers
- $2 in, $10 out per million tokens (K3.1 Pro, OpenRouter)
- Version
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
- Open source
- Yes, Kimi K3 License (custom)
- Made by
- Moonshot AI
- Website
- kimi.com
How it ranks.
- LMArena Text, style control (Kimi K3 Max)#19 · score 14882026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for ai chat is Qwen Chat.