Kimi AI has free access and four paid international plans: Plus, Pro, Max, and Ultra. Published monthly subscription prices range from $19 to $199. Annual subscriptions offer a lower monthly equivalent, with the full year paid upfront. General Kimi API usage is billed separately.
The useful comparison is the total payment, the features you need, and the usage allowance you will actually consume. This guide explains those differences so you can choose a plan without confusing an annual discount with a monthly bill.
Published international website prices checked on November 13, 2026. All amounts are in US dollars. en.kimi-ai.chat is an independent informational website; subscriptions are purchased through Kimi or an authorized app store.
Kimi AI pricing at a glance
Kimi’s official pricing details list the following paid plans. Free access costs $0 and has limited allowances.
| Plan | Monthly subscription | Annual payment upfront | Monthly equivalent of annual billing | Saving vs. 12 monthly payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plus | $19/month | $180/year | $15/month | $48/year |
| Pro | $39/month | $372/year | $31/month | $96/year |
| Max | $99/month | $948/year | $79/month | $240/year |
| Ultra | $199/month | $1,908/year | $159/month | $480/year |
The annual monthly equivalent is not a monthly installment. For example, the $15 figure for Plus means one $180 annual payment. The savings column is calculated from the published prices, comparing a prepaid year with 12 monthly payments.
These are the published international website rates. Check the final amount, billing period, and tax treatment at your chosen checkout, particularly when purchasing through an app store.
View Kimi’s official membership options. For an introduction to the assistant and its products, see our Kimi AI guide.
On this page
- Is Kimi AI free?
- Compare Plus, Pro, Max, and Ultra
- Monthly versus annual billing
- How membership credits work
- Extra Usage and additional consumption
- Membership versus API pricing
- Legacy plan names
- Taxes, renewals, and cancellation
- How to choose a plan
- Pricing FAQ
Is Kimi AI free?
Yes. You can start using Kimi without a paid subscription, within the free account’s available features and limits. Kimi’s published membership comparison includes limited K3.1 Pro access on the web and in Work, basic credits, one concurrent Agent task, two projects, and 500MB of project storage.
Free access is useful for checking whether the assistant handles your typical questions and workflow well enough. Start with a few representative tasks rather than assuming that a successful short chat proves it can complete every larger project you have in mind.
The official tables cited here do not promise a fixed number of free messages every day. Available usage depends on the applicable allowance and task. Treat the limit shown in your account as the relevant measure, and check feature access before starting a long research or document job.
If free access already covers your needs, there is no reason to subscribe merely because a higher tier exists. A paid plan becomes worth considering when a specific feature or recurring usage limit prevents you from completing useful work.
What changes between Plus, Pro, Max, and Ultra?
The official membership overview lists Kimi Code, Agent Swarm, office-file workflows, Deep Research, and website deployment across the paid lineup, subject to usage limits. The main differences are allowances, selected capabilities, and workspace capacity.
| Published benefit | Plus | Pro | Max | Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi Code access | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Goal Mode and dedicated Kimi Claw | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Agent tasks running at once | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Scheduled tasks | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Widget tasks | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Projects | 20 | 20 | 100 | 100 |
| Project storage | 20GB | 20GB | 50GB | 50GB |
Concurrent tasks describe how many jobs can run together. Scheduled tasks, widgets, and projects describe capacity. None of those numbers promises an equivalent number of completed jobs per month; actual work consumes credits.
Kimi Plus: the entry paid option
Plus is the starting point to consider when you need paid membership features, including Kimi Code, and your work fits the lower paid tier’s allowances. It is a reasonable plan to evaluate before committing to a larger subscription.
Use a normal workload to judge it: several document tasks, some research, or a typical coding session. Note whether the constraint is missing functionality, insufficient credits, or the number of jobs you need to run together. Those are different reasons to upgrade.
Kimi Pro: additional capabilities and higher allowances
The K3.1 Pro plan comparison places Highspeed access at Pro and above. Pro also adds Goal Mode and dedicated Kimi Claw access. Consider it when one of those capabilities is part of your actual workflow.
Pro and Plus both list two simultaneous Agent tasks and 20GB of project storage. Moving to Pro therefore makes more sense for its additional capabilities and allowance than for increasing either of those two limits.
Kimi Max: more room for concurrent work
Max raises the published limits to four simultaneous Agent tasks, 100 projects, and 50GB of project storage. This makes it relevant when you regularly manage several substantial workstreams and the lower tiers’ capacity gets in the way.
Kimi’s web/Work comparison also places extra-long consumer chat, up to one million tokens, at Max and Ultra. Context entitlements are product-specific: Kimi Code has its own benefit table, so check the relevant product before choosing a tier for long-context work.
Kimi Ultra: a larger allowance, with some unchanged limits
Kimi describes Ultra’s Agent-credit allowance as twice Max’s. Both tiers still list four simultaneous Agent tasks, 100 projects, and 50GB of storage. Ultra raises scheduled-task and widget capacity from 20 to 25 each.
Consider Ultra when the extra allowance solves a measured usage problem. If your main requirement is more storage or more top-level concurrent Agent jobs than Max provides, Ultra’s published limits do not increase those capacities.
Monthly versus annual billing: which costs less?
Annual billing reduces the cost of a full year at the published rates. Monthly billing requires a smaller initial payment and is easier to match to a short project or an uncertain period of use.
Example: Twelve monthly Plus payments total $19 × 12 = $228. Paying $180 annually saves $48. However, if you only need three months, the monthly payments total $57, compared with the $180 annual commitment.
The same distinction applies to the other tiers: a lower monthly equivalent is valuable when you expect to use the subscription for enough of the year. It is not automatically the cheaper choice for a temporary need.
These calculations use the website prices above and exclude any difference introduced by checkout taxes, purchase channel, or an individual offer. Before choosing annual billing, confirm the full amount being charged and the renewal date.
How Kimi membership credits work
Kimi’s credit rules describe a shared usage pool across membership features, including research, documents, Code, Work, and Claw. A heavy workflow in one area leaves less allowance for the others.
Consumption depends on what a task processes: the model, input and output length, context, and tool activity can affect usage. A short rewrite and a lengthy research project should not be treated as equivalent units of work.
Monthly and annual subscribers both receive monthly credit refreshes. The cycle follows the subscription anniversary, and unused membership credits do not roll over. Paying for a year does not mean receiving an unrestricted annual pool to spend whenever you want.
Kimi Code has an additional usage window
The Kimi Code benefits guide distinguishes current plans from legacy subscriptions. Current Plus, Pro, Max, and Ultra plans retain a rolling five-hour usage limit without a separate weekly limit. Legacy plans retain both windows. The monthly shared pool still applies to both groups.
A five-hour usage window limits consumption within that period; it is not a statement that you may only use the app for five hours. Check the Code console for the applicable remaining allowance and reset information.
Check your own consumption before upgrading
The account and credit guide directs web users to their profile’s Settings → Subscription area. On mobile, open the profile and membership area to review the plan and usage.
Look at the result you obtained as well as the credits consumed. Repeated attempts, unnecessarily large inputs, and work you do not end up using can make a higher allowance feel smaller than expected. Give each task a clear outcome and review an early result before expanding it.
Extra Usage and other consumption to consider
Extra Usage is an optional prepaid balance for subscribers who want to continue beyond included usage or applicable limits. The documented minimum top-up is $10. It is an additional expense beyond the subscription price.
- Included allowance is used first. Eligible overflow can then draw from an enabled Extra Usage balance.
- A monthly spending cap is optional and off by default. Enable it if you want to limit this additional spending.
- The balance does not expire. Remaining funds can still be spent after a subscription lapses, but making a new top-up requires an active subscription.
- A dollar amount does not buy a guaranteed number of messages. Charges depend on the task, model, and applicable rates.
Before adding money, compare your expected top-up spending with the price difference to a higher plan. An occasional overflow need and a recurring monthly shortfall may justify different choices. Use your recorded consumption for that comparison.
Also review persistent resources. Kimi’s pricing FAQ explains that a deployed Claw cloud host and a published Agent website can consume credits while their cloud resources remain active. Account for those services when investigating usage between chat sessions.
Does a Kimi subscription include API usage?
General Kimi Open Platform API usage has separate pay-as-you-go billing. The official product comparison distinguishes it from Kimi Membership and Kimi Code. A Code benefit in your subscription does not provide an unlimited general-purpose API allowance.
For context, the official API platform lists these rates for two models, per one million tokens:
| API model | Regular input | Cache-hit input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| kimi-k3.1-pro | $2.00 | $0.20 | $10.00 |
| kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeed | $4.00 | $0.20 | $20.00 |
These are usage rates, not monthly subscription charges. Cache writes and other billable items require their own treatment, and the cache-hit rate does not apply to every input token. Use the API pricing documentation for a complete estimate, including applicable taxes.
For everyday use inside Kimi, compare membership plans. For an application you are building, estimate the API workload separately. A third-party service offering a Kimi model may also set its own prices.
What happened to Moderato, Allegretto, Allegro, and Vivace?
Those names identify legacy international memberships. The current membership documentation says existing subscribers may retain their plan names, benefits, and renewal arrangements. Moving to a new plan is optional.
If your account shows an older name, compare the actual benefits and usage rules attached to it before changing anything. Similar prices do not prove that an older plan and a current plan have identical terms. The Kimi Code weekly-limit distinction is one example.
Taxes, app-store purchases, renewal, and cancellation
Kimi’s international Terms of Service, effective November 5, 2026, say the point of purchase identifies whether the displayed amount includes or excludes tax. Check the final checkout amount rather than assuming every listed website price will be your exact charge.
Purchases through an app store follow that provider’s payment, cancellation, and refund policies. Compare the offer shown in the store with the website offer, including the billing period and renewal terms.
Subscriptions generally renew automatically. The international terms require cancellation at least 24 hours before renewal, or earlier if the purchasing platform requires it. Payments are generally nonrefundable, including annual prepayments, subject to applicable law and stated exceptions.
Kimi’s cancellation guide explains that canceling auto-renewal leaves benefits active through the paid period. Manage the subscription through the channel used to buy it: Kimi, Apple, or Google Play. Canceling renewal and requesting a refund are separate actions.
How to choose a Kimi plan without overpaying
Choose the lowest tier that supports the work you need and provides enough usable allowance. A higher price is only helpful when the added benefit solves a problem you actually encounter.
- Define a representative task. Use the kind of document, research question, or coding work you handle regularly. Decide what a successful result must contain.
- Try the access already available to you. Check output quality and whether the workflow is supported before comparing larger paid allowances.
- Identify the constraint. A missing feature, exhausted credits, insufficient storage, and a concurrency limit require different solutions.
- Evaluate total cost over your expected period of use. Include any Extra Usage spending and compare monthly billing with the full annual payment.
- Review usage after a normal work cycle. Upgrade when the evidence supports it; avoid choosing a large allowance based only on an unusually busy day.
For example, a student who needs occasional explanations may remain within free access. Someone who needs Kimi Code should first examine Plus. A workflow that specifically needs Goal Mode or Highspeed should examine Pro or above. Heavy parallel workloads may justify Max, while Ultra is mainly a question of whether its larger allowance is useful.
These are selection guidelines, not promises that a particular plan will complete a fixed amount of work. Your tasks, output requirements, and actual consumption determine the practical value.
Kimi AI pricing FAQ
Does the K3.1 Pro model require the Pro subscription?
The model name and subscription name refer to different things. Kimi’s model-access comparison includes limited K3.1 Pro usage on Free and access on Plus. The Highspeed variant starts at Pro in that comparison. Check the exact model and product you intend to use.
Does Kimi Code have the same context entitlement as web chat?
Check the product-specific table. The Code membership guide lists its K3 one-million-token context benefit at Pro and above, while the general membership comparison places extra-long consumer chat at Max and Ultra. A limit shown for one product should not be assumed to apply across every Kimi interface.
Can I upgrade or downgrade later?
According to Kimi’s plan-change guide, eligible upgrades take effect immediately with a prorated calculation. For downgrades, the guide instructs users to stop renewal, use the current plan until it expires, and then subscribe to the lower tier. App-store subscriptions follow their platform’s management process.
What happens when my membership credits run out?
Kimi’s usage rules say an already-running task can finish, while new tasks may receive an insufficient-credit message. Depending on your situation, you can wait for the next refresh, change plans, or use eligible enabled Extra Usage. Check the account notice to distinguish a monthly-credit shortage from a shorter Code usage window.
To check the offer available to your account, open Kimi’s official membership page and review the plan, payment amount, and billing period before subscribing.