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
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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Kimi 月之暗面
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable | — |
| Paid from | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28; V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 per 1M tokens (now permanent, not promo) | API from $0.95/$4.00 per M tokens (input/output; OpenRouter ~$0.75/$3.50); free web tier |
| 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 | — |
| Verdict | DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)... |
Kimi is Moonshot AI's consumer front-end for the open-weight K-series models, and in 2026 it's no longer a China-only story: kimi.com, the Kimi Code CLI and an English API platform give it a real international footprint,... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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