Kimi AI is a smart assistant you talk to in everyday words. Ask it a question, hand it a long file, or tell it to make something, and it does the work. It is made by Moonshot AI and used on the web, on phones and on computers. New to it? This page covers everything you need to know in about five minutes.
An illustration of a chat with Kimi, not a real conversation.
An AI assistant that answers questions, reads files and makes things for you.
Moonshot AI, a company founded in Beijing in 2023.
Free for everyday chat. Paid plans for heavier use start at $19 a month.
Kimi AI is a computer program you can talk to. You type what you want in normal language, the way you would message a helpful colleague, and it writes back. There are no commands to learn.
It belongs to the same family of tools as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. What sets Kimi apart is how much it can do beyond chatting: it can carry out a whole task from start to finish, such as researching a topic and writing the report, or building a small website.
Questions, explanations, translations and help with writing.
Long PDFs, documents, pictures and web pages, then tells you what matters.
Reports, slides, spreadsheets, websites and working code.
Curious how it does this? See how Kimi AI works.
Kimi is made by Moonshot AI, a company founded in Beijing, China, in 2023. Its investors include Alibaba and Tencent. Moonshot builds the AI models that power Kimi, and it publishes many of them openly so that other people can run and study them.
The first Kimi chatbot was known for reading very long documents. Since then Moonshot has released a new model every few months, each able to do more.
Company details as collected for this site's home page. Model dates from Moonshot's model cards and announcements.
Ask anything. Kimi can look things up online and show where the answer came from.
Summarize reports, contracts and study material in seconds.
Deep Research reads many sources and writes a report with references.
Documents, slide decks and spreadsheets from a short description.
Describe a site and Kimi builds and publishes it.
Fix bugs, add features, or turn a design into working code.
The full list, with a guide for each: Kimi AI features.
What do you want to do? Pick one to see where to begin.
Go to kimi.com in your browser, or install the official app from your phone's app store.
Sign up there. The free plan does not need a payment card.
Type what you need in everyday words and press Enter.
Attach a file, or ask Kimi to make something, when you are ready.
Step-by-step help: how to use Kimi AI · signing in · the official website
At kimi.com. Nothing to install.
Apps for Android and iPhone.
Desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
Developers can connect through the API.
More: download Kimi · Kimi app for Android and iOS · Kimi API
This split follows our pricing pages. Plans change, so confirm on kimi.com before paying. More: Is Kimi AI free? · Kimi AI pricing
Explain a hard topic, summarize reading, practise for a test.
Draft emails, turn notes into slides, tidy a spreadsheet.
Gather sources, compare documents, get a first draft.
Build a simple website, write product text, plan a campaign.
Fix bugs, build features, or add Kimi to an app through the API.
Ask questions, plan a trip, learn something new.
Kimi comes with a lot of names. Here is what each one means.
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