Kimi API pricing
How Kimi API charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-07 on platform.kimi.ai ↗ · USD, list pricesIn short
Pay per token from a prepaid balance, from $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens on Kimi K2.6 to $3 / $15 on Kimi K3.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Side project
- $8.75/mo Kimi K2.6
- Growing
- $88/mo Kimi K2.6
- Scaling
- $1,750/mo Kimi K2.6
What the model leaves out
Cache-miss input prices. Cache hits are far cheaper (K3 $0.30, K2.6 $0.16, K2.7 Code $0.19 per million). A HighSpeed variant of K2.7 Code costs twice as much. Mainland prices (platform.moonshot.cn) are in yuan.
Before you commit
- Kimi K3 bills cache writes separately: $3 per million tokens for a 5-minute cache, $6 for 1 hour; cache hits cost $0.30.
- There is no free tier: you top up at least $1 to start, and rate limits rise with how much you have topped up in total.
- Prices exclude applicable taxes.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Input tokens per month | Output tokens per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 | None | $3 per million tokens | $15 per million tokens |
| Kimi K2.6 | None | $0.95 per million tokens | $4 per million tokens |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | None | $0.95 per million tokens | $4 per million tokens |
What you'd pay
Kimi K2.650 million tokens × $0.95 per million tokens + 10 million tokens × $4 per million tokens$88/mo
Cost as you grow
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