DeepSeek vs Kimi 月之暗面
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab shipping MIT-licensed V4 models and a very cheap API
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Kimi 月之暗面
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight K3 model with a 1M-token conte...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free chat on the web and in the app; MIT-licensed open weights to self-host | Adagio free plan: 1 concurrent agent task, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects and 500MB of project storage |
| Paid from | $0.15 per 1M input tokens (deepseek-flash, cache miss, off-peak); $0.30 at peak | $19/month (Plus, or $15/month billed annually); API from $0.95 in and $4.00 out per M tokens |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | High-Flyer | Moonshot AI (月之暗面) |
| Verdict | DeepSeek remains the price benchmark for capable models: V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 to $0.30 per million input tokens and V4-Pro under $4 per million output at peak, both with 1M-token context, and the weights are MIT-licens... |
Kimi earns its place on capability and price. K3 is the largest open-weight model available, with a one-million-token context and weights you can run yourself under a licence that only bites on very large commercial user... |
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