Moonshot AI Pricing Calculator
Updated September 2026Two-track: tempo-named Kimi assistant subscriptions ($0–$199/mo) + a per-model, cache-discounted per-token API
Moonshot AI pricing: Moonshot AI (Kimi) pricing 2026: a $0-$199/mo Kimi assistant plus a per-token API from $0.16/M cached, topped by flagship Kimi K3 at $3.00 in / $15.00 out. Use the free calculator below to enter your usage and get an instant all-in monthly estimate — including overages — and see which plan is cheapest for your needs.
How Moonshot AI prices: Two-track: tempo-named Kimi assistant subscriptions ($0–$199/mo) + a per-model, cache-discounted per-token API.
How Moonshot AI prices
Two-track: tempo-named Kimi assistant subscriptions ($0–$199/mo) + a per-model, cache-discounted per-token API
Best fit — auto-selected: Kimi Moderato
$38.00/mo— the cheapest plan that fits; adjust usage and it re-picks
Your usage
💡 A long-context RAG agent on Kimi K2.5 might run ~60M input tokens/mo
💡 Output is billed several times higher than input on every Kimi model
Pick the model; its published input $/M token rate is applied (cache-miss unless noted).
Output $/M token rate for the same model (output is the larger meter on every Kimi model).
💡 Paid Kimi assistant tiers run $19/$39/$99/$199 per month
Required capabilities
Tick what you need — plans that don't offer it are filtered out, whatever the price.
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Monthly Estimate
Kimi Moderato
$38.00
per month
Cost Breakdown
Annual
$456.00
Why Kimi Moderato — $38.00/mo
- Kimi Moderato at $38.00/mo.
- How we got there: 60 M tokens (Input tokens) × 1 $/M tokens (Model — input rate) = 57 $.
- How we got there: 15 M tokens (Output tokens) × 4 $/M tokens (Model — output rate) = 60 $.
- Kimi assistant paid seat (1 × $19) is 50% of your bill — the lever that matters most.
Budget range
Plan for usage swings, not just today's estimate.
Conservative
$38.00
8 M tokens/mo
Expected
$38.00
15 M tokens/mo
Aggressive
$38.00
30 M tokens/mo
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Get StartedMoonshot AI plans at a glance
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Kimi API (pay-as-you-go) | Usage-based | Developers calling Kimi/Moonshot models per token |
| Kimi Free (Adagio) | Free | Individuals using the Kimi assistant |
| Kimi Moderato | $19/mo | Power users wanting K2.6 + Deep Research + Kimi Code |
| Kimi Allegretto | $39/mo | Heavy users needing Agent Swarm + more code credits |
Prices shown are list rates as of September 2026. Enter your usage above for an all-in estimate including overages and add-ons.
About this Moonshot AI calculator
This calculator estimates your Moonshot AI cost from publicly available pricing. Actual costs may vary with your specific agreement, volume discounts, and usage patterns — always verify on the provider's official pricing page for the most current rates.
Moonshot AI pricing — frequently asked questions
What is Moonshot AI's pricing model? ▼
Moonshot runs three tracks: subscriptions for the Kimi assistant (Free, then $19/$39/$99/$199 per month), a usage-based per-token API, and Kimi Business, a team/enterprise seat plan. Every current API model is billed per million tokens with separate cache-hit and cache-miss input rates, and API rate limits scale with cumulative recharge. Kimi Business briefly went sales-only after its only public per-seat/year price was pulled on 2026-08-04, then regained a public, self-serve price of $600/year/seat (minimum 2 seats) on 2026-08-28 via a new 'Business' tab, even as a separate marketing page still offers only a sales-led 'Contact sales' path with no price shown.
Does Moonshot AI (Kimi) offer a free tier? ▼
Yes. The Kimi assistant has a Free plan (named Adagio) at $0/mo with 6 agent credits, one concurrent agent task and 200 professional-database calls. The original Kimi assistant launched free in 2023 and became famous for long-context (up to 2 million Chinese characters).
How much does the Kimi K3 API cost per million tokens? ▼
Kimi K3, the flagship model, is $3.00 input (cache miss) / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, with cache-hit input at $0.30/M and a 1,048,576-token context window. It is the most expensive model on Moonshot's card by a wide margin — K2.6 and K2.7 Code are $0.95 in / $4.00 out.
Why does Moonshot charge different rates for the same model? ▼
The legacy moonshot-v1 family was context-length-tiered: moonshot-v1-8k, -32k and -128k each carried a different per-token rate for the same model, rising with the context window. That family — along with Kimi K2.5 — was officially retired on August 31, 2026; calls to either now return a 404 (model not found) error. The Kimi K2/K3 models fold long context into one flat per-model rate instead.
Is this Moonshot AI pricing calculator free and accurate? ▼
Yes — it's completely free with no signup. It uses the latest publicly available Moonshot AI pricing (verified September 2026). Actual costs may vary with volume discounts or enterprise terms — always confirm on Moonshot AI's official pricing page.