Some jobs are too wide for one assistant: 100 companies to research, 40 PDFs to read, 200 articles to collect. Agent Swarm splits a job like that between many helper agents that all work at once, then joins their results into one answer.
One lead agent hands out the work, many helpers do it together, and the results come back as one.
One lead agent directing many helper agents that work at the same time.
Wide jobs: the same work repeated across many items.
Paid plans from $19 a month, and several times the credits of a normal agent task.
In normal Agent Mode, one agent does a task from start to finish, one step after another. Agent Swarm adds a team. A lead agent breaks the job into parts, starts a helper for each part, and collects what they find.
Figures from Kimi's help centre. They are upper limits, not what every task uses.
Kimi compares it to a coach and players. The coach does not play. The coach decides who does what, and brings the results together.
The lead agent reads your task and divides it into parts that can run side by side.
It starts a helper for each part. You do not set up roles or steps yourself.
Helpers search, read and write at the same time. Each keeps its own notes.
Helpers report only their key findings. The lead agent joins them into one result.
The gain comes from doing parts at the same time instead of one after another.
Kimi says up to 4.5 times faster than one agent working through the same steps in order.
On a hard web-browsing test, Kimi reports accuracy rising from 15.9% with one agent to 33.3% with a swarm.
More helpers means more work done, so a swarm task uses several times the credits of a normal one.
Speed and test figures are Moonshot's own, from Kimi's help centre. We have not found independent tests of Agent Swarm.
The "good fit" list follows the examples in Kimi's help centre. The second list is our own advice.
A swarm needs a job it can split. Give it a clear list and say what to do for each item.
Tell me about the electric car market.
There is no list of parts, so a swarm has little to share out.For each of the 30 best-selling electric cars in Europe, find the price, range, battery size and charging time. Put them in one spreadsheet with a source link for every row.
Thirty similar jobs that can all run at once.After the first result, you can keep chatting in the same thread. Kimi switches between chat and agent work by itself.
With 100 rows you cannot check everything, and you should not trust everything. Check a sample.
Then ask Kimi to redo only the weak parts, and preview, download or share the result.
Replace anything in [square brackets] with your own details. Start with a small number to test, then scale up.
For each of these [number] companies: [list], find what they sell, their prices, their head office and one recent news item. Put it all in one spreadsheet with a source link in every row.
Read all [number] attached PDFs. Write a literature review that groups them by theme, compares their findings, and lists every paper with a one-line summary.
For each of these [number] topics: [list], find the three most useful beginner resources and say in one sentence why each is good. Return one table.
Collect all the articles published by [author or site] about [topic] since [year]. Give me a table with title, date, link and a two-sentence summary of each.
Review the attached [plan or product page] from five points of view: a customer, a designer, an engineer, a marketer and a finance manager. Give each view separately, then a combined list of the top ten fixes.
For each of the [number] largest cities in [country], find the average rent, the main industries and the public transport options. One spreadsheet, with a source for every figure.
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Agent Swarm is for paid members. Each plan has a number of swarm uses a month and a cap on how many parts can run side by side.
| Plan | Price a month | Swarm uses a month | Parts running side by side |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adagio (free) | $0 | Not included | Not included |
| Moderato | $19 | 25 | 2 |
| Allegretto | $39 | 50 | 4 |
| Allegro | $99 | 120 | 4 |
| Vivace | $199 | 240 | 8 |
On a small screen, swipe the table sideways to see every column.
Plan figures are Kimi's international ones as collected for this site. Kimi's help page for Agent Swarm confirms it is for paid members but does not list these numbers, so check kimi.com before you pay. Kimi pricing
Run ten items first. Fix the prompt, then run the full list.
Paste your own list of items if you have one. Finding the list costs credits too.
Four facts per company is far cheaper than a full profile of each.
Say "one spreadsheet" at the start, so nothing has to be redone.
Do not rerun the whole job to fix five lines.
If the job is not wide, use normal Agent Mode.
More help: Kimi AI not working: common fixes.