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Kimi pricing in the US
Moonshot AI sells Kimi to US businesses in US dollars: a free plan, then Plus, Pro, Max and Ultra for one person each, monthly or yearly, and Kimi Business for 2 to 150 seats, paid yearly. Use past a plan's credits is bought as prepaid top-ups, and the Kimi API is priced per million tokens.
Country
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Paid from US$19/month (Kimi Plus)
- Pricing model
- Per person for one user
- Per seat for teams, paid yearly
- Plus usage top-ups
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly
- Business yearly only
- Tax
- Tax may be added at checkout
- US sales tax treatment not stated
- YOY change
- Not enough history
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2026
How much does Kimi cost in the US?
Plans
Five personal plans and Kimi Business in US dollars before any tax, and Enterprise through sales.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Who it is for | Key limits |
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| Kimi Adagio (Free) | US$0 per user | Not offered | Free plan. | Key limits
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| Kimi Plus | US$19 per user | US$15 per user | Efficiency upgrade | Key limits
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| Kimi Pro | US$39 per user | US$31 per user | Pro choice | Key limits
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| Kimi Max | US$99 per user | US$79 per user | Premium mode | Key limits
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| Kimi Ultra | US$199 per user | US$159 per user | Ultimate empowerment | Key limits
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| Kimi Business | US$50 per user, paid yearly | US$50 per user, paid yearly | Ideal for small and medium-sized businesses with team collaboration needs. | Key limits
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| Kimi Enterprise | Contact sales | Not offered | Above Business, through sales | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Usage past plan credits | From US$10 a top-upPrepaid top-ups, at rates close to API pricing | |
| Extra Usage limits | US$2,000 balance capUp to 10 top-ups and US$1,000 a day; funds do not expire | |
| Business minimum of 2 seats | US$1,200 a yearBilled for at least 2 seats, yearly | |
| Business maximum of 150 seats | Not publicly listedPast 150 per purchase, Kimi Enterprise through sales | |
| Business seats added mid-term | US$600 a seat a year, proratedProrated to the shared expiry date | |
| Kimi Claw cloud host | About 0.6% of credits a dayDeducted daily from membership credits while deployed | |
| Agent website cloud service | About 0.08% of creditsDeducted from membership credits while a site stays online | |
| Buying in the iPhone app | Plus US$19 a month; Pro US$39 a monthApp Store in-app purchase, in USD as Apple sets it | |
| Kimi API | US$1 minimum to startPrepaid recharge, separate from membership and Kimi Code | |
| Web search through the API | US$0.004 a callPer call, on top of tokens | |
| Refunds | No refund for the unused termPaid services are generally non-refundable once activated |
API prices
The Kimi API is billed by use, in US dollars per million tokens, separately from any plan.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context window | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 | US$3 | US$15 | US$0.30 | 1.05M tokens |
Kimi cost calculator
Enter how many people need Kimi, any Extra Usage, and any API use to price every plan. Estimates in US dollars, before any tax.
How many people in each role will use AI?
For example, General office: 10 people. 12 people in total.
- General officeEmail, writing, summaries and researchpeople
- Content and marketingDrafting, editing and campaignspeople
- Software developmentCoding assistants, reviews and debuggingpeople
- Customer supportReplies and ticket summariespeople
- Finance and analysisSpreadsheets, reports and documentspeople
Do you also want AI to do jobs automatically?
How many times a month for each job. For example, 300 if you sign about 300 contracts a month.
Writing
- Answer support emailsa month
- Summarise email threadsa month
- Answer questions from your documentsa month
- Summarise contractsa month
- Draft blog posts or newslettersa month
- Review code changesa month
Decisions
- Route support ticketsa month
- Score inbound leadsa month
- Flag invoices for reviewa month
- Check documents against a policya month
Estimated cost
US$600a month
Kimi Business: 12 people
- Per year, billed monthly
- US$7,200
- Seats
- US$600
How we worked it out
- General office staff use AI in short bursts, so a standard seat covers them.
- Content and marketing staff use AI through the day, within a standard seat's limits.
Estimated, USD, excluding sales tax.
What Kimi costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees, assuming every employee gets a seat, on the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
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| 1 to 10 | Kimi Adagio (Free) to Kimi Business | US$0 to US$500 | US$0 | to | US$500 | US$0 to US$6,000 | US$0 | to | US$6,000 | |||
| 11 to 50 | Kimi Business | US$550 to US$2,500 | US$550 | to | US$2,500 | US$6,600 to US$30,000 | US$6,600 | to | US$30,000 | |||
| 51 to 200 | Kimi Business | US$2,550 to No plan | US$2,550 | to | No plan | US$30,600 to No plan | US$30,600 | to | No plan | |||
| 201 to 500 | No plan fits | |||||||||||
Kimi discount codes and offers
Current Kimi offers in the US, checked 18 October 2026.
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Pay yearly
Plus US$15; Pro US$31; Max US$79; Ultra US$159, a month
Billed once up front for the year; about 20% off monthly billing
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API recharge voucher
US$5 voucher
Once cumulative API recharges reach US$5; vouchers do not count towards rate-limit tiers
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Free file APIs
File content extraction and storage APIs free for now
Extracted content passed to a model is still billed as input
How to negotiate Kimi's price
Ranked by confidence of the biggest return.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
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| [01] | Pay yearly | Plus drops from US$19 to US$15 a month, Pro from US$39 to US$31, Max from US$99 to US$79 and Ultra from US$199 to US$159. | US$48 a year on Plus; US$480 on Ultra |
| [02] | Stay on a personal plan while you are one person | Business bills at least 2 seats, yearly: US$1,200 a year against US$180 for Plus paid yearly. | US$1,020 a year |
| [03] | Pick the smallest plan that covers your credits | Pro has 2 times, Max 5 times and Ultra 10 times Plus's agent credits, in one monthly pool with no rollover. | US$100 a month, Ultra to Max |
| [04] | Top up instead of upgrading | Extra Usage starts at US$10, does not expire, and takes an optional monthly spending cap. | The gap to the next plan, less top-ups used |
| [05] | Remove unused Business seats before renewal | Business is billed per seat for the year. Check who has not used Kimi before the renewal date. | US$600 a seat a year |
| [06] | Cache repeated API input | Kimi K3 cached input is US$0.30 per million tokens against US$3 uncached. | 90% of repeated input cost |
| [07] | Ask for terms past 150 seats | Kimi Enterprise is sold through sales, with no public price. | Not publicly listed |
Kimi price history
No plan price history is charted for the US yet. Kimi's US dollar list prices have not changed since launch; see the questions below. Kimi's API prices over two years are charted here.
API prices
Kimi's API price over the same two years, one line per model family, in US dollars per million tokens. Each point is the blended price, 70% input and 30% output; hover for each launch and change.
Kimi alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the US, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (ChatGPT Go) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage credits | Per person or per seat in USD, sales tax extra, plus usage credits | Price guides |
| Gemini | Free plan; paid from US$4.99 a user a month (Google AI Plus) | Per person on Google AI plans, per user in Google Workspace, plus AI credit top-ups | Per person on Google AI plans, or per user inside Google Workspace, in USD | Price guides |
| Claude | Free plan; paid from US$20 a user a month (Claude Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in USD before sales tax, plus usage at API rates | Price guides |
| Meta AI | Free plan; paid from US$7.99 a user a month (Meta One Core) | Free for everyday use, per person for Core and Premium, per profile for business plans, plus API usage | Free assistant, with paid Meta One bundles per person or per business profile | Price guides |
| Grok | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (Grok Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus prepaid usage credit | Per person or per seat in USD before sales tax, plus prepaid usage credit | Price guides |
| DeepSeek | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per million tokens, half price off-peak | API only, pay as you go per million tokens in US dollars, half price off-peak | Price guides |
| Mistral Vibe | Free plan; paid from US$15 a user a month (Mistral Vibe Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, with API usage in the same plan | Price guides |
| Qwen | US$8 a user a month (Qwen Token Plan Lite) | Per person for one developer, per seat for teams, plus API usage per token | Per person or per seat in US dollars on monthly Credits quotas, plus API usage per token | Price guides |
| Z.ai | Free plan; paid from US$18 a user a month (GLM Coding Plan Lite) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus Team overage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, 20% off quarterly and 30% off yearly | Price guides |
| MiniMax | Free plan; paid from US$22 a user a month (MiniMax M Plan Go) | Per person for one user, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Per person in US dollars before tax, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Price guides |
| Jev | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per input token, output free | API only, per billion input tokens in US dollars, output free | Price guides |
Kimi pricing questions
Kimi's free plan costs nothing. Plus is US$19 a month, Pro US$39, Max US$99 and Ultra US$199, or about 20% less paid yearly. Kimi Business is US$600 a seat a year for 2 to 150 seats. Prices are before any tax.
No. The US App Store sells Plus at US$19 and Pro at US$39 a month, the same as the web. A yearly Plus pass is US$180.99 in the app against US$180 on the web.
Kimi does not say. Its API page says prices exclude tax, which is calculated at checkout by jurisdiction, and its invoice page names no US sales tax rule. Prices here are before any tax.
Yes, by about 20%. Plus is US$180 a year against US$228 paid monthly, and Ultra US$1,908 against US$2,388. Credits still refresh monthly with no rollover. Business is sold yearly only.
Subscribers can buy Extra Usage: prepaid top-ups in US dollars from US$10, deducted at rates close to API pricing. Funds do not expire, the balance is capped at US$2,000, and a monthly spending cap can be set.
A team plan for 2 to 150 seats at US$600 a seat a year, paid yearly only, with Kimi Work, Swarm, Dashboard, Plugins and Kimi Code. Business data is not used for model training by default. It runs on web and desktop; the mobile app supports personal plans only.
The API is pay as you go with no subscription, prepaid from US$1. Kimi K3 is US$3 per million input tokens and US$15 per million output tokens, with cached input at US$0.30. The API is separate from membership and from Kimi Code.
No US dollar change has been found. Plus launched at US$19 and Ultra at US$199 in September 2025, Pro was US$39 by October 2025 and Max US$99 by February 2026, the prices today. The plans were renamed from Moderato, Allegretto, Allegro and Vivace in late September 2026 at unchanged prices.
Kimi pricing sources and methodology
From kimi.com/membership/pricing and Kimi's help centre on 18 October 2026. The pricing page shows a bare "$" with the same figures to visitors from several countries; the help centre states US dollars. App Store prices in USD are listed as an additional cost and in each plan's limits, not as plan prices.
Estimates from list prices before any tax, in US dollars. Free, Plus, Pro, Max and Ultra serve one person each, so two or more people are priced on Kimi Business at US$50 a seat a month, its yearly price divided by 12, for at least 2 seats. Extra Usage is added at cost on the four paid personal plans; whether Business can buy it is not stated. API tokens are priced on the chosen model from Ensurva's AI price guides. Company size assumes every employee gets a seat; past 150 seats no plan has a published price.
Kimi does not document US sales tax on web purchases, so prices here are before any tax.
Kimi does not publish a list of countries it sells to. Its pricing page loads with the same US dollar prices from abroad, and the Kimi app sells subscriptions on the United States App Store, so it is taken as sold in the US.
The API table comes from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides, read from Moonshot AI's own pricing pages, in US dollars per million tokens.
No plan price history is kept for the US. The US dollar history in the questions comes from press reports from AIbase and OFweek, a US App Store listing, a third-party pricing tracker and Kimi's own pages, read for the Australian page.
Drawn from how Moonshot AI charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
Left off the page. No public comments on Kimi's pricing from people in the US have been collected yet.
Ordered by Ensurva's estimate of each vendor's share of business customers in this country. Only tools with their own Ensurva price guide are listed.
Checked monthly against Kimi's own pages.
The calculator's By use case tab puts each person on a seat that suits how heavily their role uses AI. Software developers use it most, about 15% of their working hours against about 6% across all workers (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2026), so they get the heavier seat where the plan has one. Content, support and finance staff fit a standard seat, and general office staff use AI least. Each automated job is priced at a typical size, about 100 tokens to 75 words: a support reply reads about 1,100 words and writes 200, and a contract summary reads 10,000 and writes 750. Decision jobs read the record and give a short typed answer: about 600 words to route a support ticket, 4,500 to check a document against a policy. Those sizes are Ensurva's own estimates. A model that writes no text, such as Jev, is priced on decision jobs only. Jobs are priced as API use on the vendor's default model, less any API credits the plan includes.
- Kimi membership pricing 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi help: pricing details 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi help: Kimi Business 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi help: Extra Usage 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi help: Invoices 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi help: payment issues 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi API model pricing 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi API recharge and rate limits 18 Oct 2026
- Kimi API product comparison 16 Oct 2026
- Kimi app, United States App Store 18 Oct 2026
- UsagePricing: Kimi plan rename 16 Oct 2026
- AIbase: Kimi membership launch 16 Oct 2026
- OFweek: Kimi overseas pricing 16 Oct 2026
Prices are estimates from Moonshot AI's published list prices on the date shown. Check kimi.com before buying.