Kimi

Free

By AI Bookmarks Editorial Team, Directory editors Last reviewed 2026-10-23

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Chinese chat assistant from Moonshot AI, free on web and mobile, built for long documents and parallel task runs.

Quick facts

Pricing	Free
Free tier	Yes — free on web and mobile, with usage caps
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android
Developer	Moonshot AI
Launched	2023
Website	https://kimi.com

What Kimi is

Kimi is a chat assistant from Moonshot AI, a Chinese model company. It is best known for handling long inputs — pasting a full report, contract or codebase and asking questions across the whole document — and for a chat interface that runs in the browser and in mobile apps. Newer versions push beyond conversation: the current model can generate slide decks, build small playable games, and run several tasks in parallel through features the company markets as Swarm and Goal. Answers and uploaded files stay inside the Kimi workspace, and the product is aimed at knowledge work rather than coding alone. The interface is Chinese-first with an English option, and registration is by phone number. Access from outside mainland China can be slower or restricted, and English documentation is thinner than for comparable Western products. For teams the practical questions are data residency and whether the free limits cover daily volume.

Best for

Reading and questioning long documents in a single pass
Drafting slides or reports from material you already have
Chinese-language work that needs a natively trained model

Not ideal for

Teams that require data to stay in a specific jurisdiction
Workflows that depend on extensive English documentation

Pros

Long context handles whole documents rather than excerpts
Free to use on web and mobile
Slide and file generation built into the same chat

Cons

English documentation is thin compared with Western rivals
Availability and speed vary outside mainland China
Free usage is capped when demand is high

Pricing in detail

Kimi is free to use through the web app and the mobile clients, with usage limits that tighten when demand is high. No per-seat price list is published in English, so team and API costs have to be confirmed with Moonshot AI directly. Budget from the free tier first, and treat paid capacity as something to negotiate rather than something you can price from the website.