Chat
Ask a question in everyday words and get an answer in seconds.
Good for: Questions, writing help, translating, studying
Kimi is more than a chatbot. It can research a topic, write documents, make slides and spreadsheets, build websites, help with code and carry out whole tasks for you. This page explains every feature in plain words and points you to a full guide for each one.
Kimi's features all live in one place: the website and apps at kimi.com.
Chat, web search and file reading. You ask, Kimi answers in seconds.
Free for everyday useReports, documents, slides, spreadsheets, websites and code.
Mostly uses monthly creditsAgents that plan and finish a whole task while you do something else.
Mostly for paid plansChoose a group to narrow the list. Each card says what the feature does, what it is good for, and links to our full guide.
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Ask a question in everyday words and get an answer in seconds.
Good for: Questions, writing help, translating, studying
Kimi can look things up online and show where the answer came from.
Good for: Recent news, prices, quick fact checks
Attach a PDF, document or image and ask Kimi to explain or summarize it.
Good for: Long reports, contracts, study material
Kimi reads many sources and writes a long report with references. Takes about 10 to 25 minutes.
Good for: Market overviews, background briefings
Pulls figures from finance and economics data sources into your answer.
Good for: Company figures, market and World Bank data
Writes, edits and converts documents. Gives you Word, Excel or PDF files back.
Good for: Reports, letters, tidy formatted documents
Turns a topic or a document into a slide deck you can edit in PowerPoint.
Good for: Presentations, pitch decks, lesson slides
Builds spreadsheets with formulas, charts and simple dashboards.
Good for: Budgets, trackers, data clean-up
Describe a site and Kimi builds it. You can publish it and roll back changes.
Good for: Landing pages, portfolios, small shop sites
Kimi looks at a screenshot or picture and writes code to match it.
Good for: Recreating a layout you can see
Turns a design mockup into a working front end.
Good for: Designers and front-end developers
A coding helper that works inside your own project, from the terminal.
Good for: Fixing bugs, adding features, reading a codebase
Give Kimi a whole task. It plans the steps, does them and hands back the result.
Good for: Multi-step jobs that end in a file
Many helper agents work on parts of a big job at the same time.
Good for: Large research or batch jobs
An always-on agent in the cloud. It remembers things and can run tasks on a schedule.
Good for: Daily digests, recurring chores
Use Kimi on Android, iPhone, Windows and Mac as well as in the browser.
Good for: Using Kimi on the go
Lets developers put Kimi's models inside their own apps. Paid per use.
Good for: Building your own product or tool
The small label on each card is a rough guide to cost. "Uses credits" means the feature draws on the monthly credits that come with your plan, including the small amount on the free plan. See free and paid.
Most features run in one of three ways. Knowing which is which helps you pick the right one and avoid wasting credits.
| Chat | Agent | Swarm | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it does | Answers your message | Plans and completes a task | Splits a big job between many agents |
| Time | Seconds | Minutes | Minutes to much longer |
| What you get | A reply | A finished file or result | A large combined result |
| Cost | Free for everyday chat | Uses credits | Uses the most credits |
| Use it when | You want to ask or draft | The job has several steps | The job has many separate parts |
On a small screen, swipe the table sideways to see every column.
More: Agent Mode · Agent Swarm · How Kimi works
| I want to... | Use this |
|---|---|
| Get a quick answer | Chat |
| Understand a long PDF | PDF summary |
| Learn a topic in depth, with sources | Deep Research |
| Write a formatted report | Kimi Docs |
| Prepare a presentation | Kimi Slides |
| Build a budget or tracker | Kimi Sheets |
| Make a simple website | Website Builder |
| Turn a design into code | Design to Code |
| Work on my own codebase | Kimi Code |
| Run a task every day | Kimi Claw |
| Add Kimi to my own app | Kimi API |
Paid plans start at $19 a month. The Kimi API is separate: it has no monthly fee and you pay for what you use.
This split follows the plan details on our pricing pages. Plans and allowances change, so confirm on kimi.com before you pay. Details: Is Kimi AI free? · Kimi AI pricing · API pricing
A model is the "brain" that does the thinking. Kimi's features run on a small family of models, and you can often choose which one to use.
The top model. Reads text, images and video, and can take in very long material at once. Best for hard tasks.
Tuned for programming. It powers coding work, with a faster "HighSpeed" version.
Not sure which to pick? See choose a Kimi model.
Copy one, replace the parts in [brackets], and paste it into Kimi.
Explain [topic] to me as if I am new to it. Use a short example and keep it under 150 words.
Summarize the attached file in 8 bullet points. Then list any dates, amounts and deadlines it mentions.
Research [topic]. Cover the current situation, the main players and the risks. Use recent sources and list them at the end.
Make a 10-slide presentation on [topic] for [audience]. One clear message per slide, with speaker notes.
Build a monthly budget spreadsheet with income, fixed costs, variable costs and a savings total. Add formulas and one chart.
Build a one-page website for [business]. Include a short intro, three services, opening hours and a contact section.
More ideas: how to use Kimi AI.
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