Moonshot (Kimi)

Long-context runner when Gemini procurement is blocked and you want 1M ctx at $3/$15. Google AI stays Depot…

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Long-context runner when Gemini procurement is blocked and you want 1M ctx at $3/$15. Google AI stays Depot long-context pick; Anthropic for coding-agent. Strengths: K3 1M context at a published $3/$15 — alternative to Gemini for long docs; K2.7 Code is a serious coding-agent SKU; OpenAI-compat international endpoint.

Overall

7.9

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

8.6

Price / performance

8.4

Latency / reliability

7.8

Developer & agent DX

8.2

Privacy / data retention

6.2

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

4.0

Maturity / track record

8.0

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Kimi chat pricing: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat · Moonshot / Kimi platform: https://platform.kimi.ai

Long-context runner when Gemini procurement is blocked and you want 1M ctx at $3/$15. Google AI stays Depot long-context pick; Anthropic for coding-agent.

Strengths

· K3 1M context at a published $3/$15 — alternative to Gemini for long docs
· K2.7 Code is a serious coding-agent SKU
· OpenAI-compat international endpoint

Weaknesses

· CN vendor / routing/compliance review for some customers
· Tool-calling reliability still trails Claude for hard agents
· Cache discount depends on hitting prefix cache

Pricing notes

As of 2026-09-14 (platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat; API api.moonshot.ai/v1 OpenAI-compat): kimi-k2.6 $0.95 in / $4 out per 1M (cached in $0.16), 262k ctx. kimi-k2.7-code $0.95/$4 (cached $0.19); highspeed $1.90/$8. kimi-k3 $3/$15 (cached $0.30), 1,048,576 ctx. File extract/storage APIs temporarily free.

Regions: global, cnLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

Sourced pricing

Contract status ambiguous · input_output_split_not_a_single_rate. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=moonshot

kimi-k3 · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $3 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k3 · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $15 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k3 · usd_per_million_cached_input_tokens · $0.3 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k3 cache write 5min · usd_per_million_cache_write_tokens · $3 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k3 cache write 1h · usd_per_million_cache_write_tokens · $6 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.95 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $4 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code · usd_per_million_cached_input_tokens · $0.19 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $1.9 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $8 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed · usd_per_million_cached_input_tokens · $0.38 · sourced_token_price
kimi-k2.6 · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.95 · sourced_token_price

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