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Kimi vs DeepSeek
Kimi (Moonshot AI) vs DeepSeek (DeepSeek) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-19.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
Chinese AI assistant famous for its 2M+ token context window and document chat.
Pick Kimi over DeepSeek if you need: Long-document chat or Chinese-language work.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Open-weights Chinese AI lab with strong reasoning at a fraction of GPT pricing.
Pick DeepSeek over Kimi if you need: Coding or Math.
Full comparison table
Dimension
Kimi
Moonshot AI
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Basics
Company
Moonshot AI
DeepSeek
Released
2023-10-09
2023-11-29
Latest Version
Kimi K2
DeepSeek V3.2 / R2
Capabilities
Text Generation
9.0
9.0
Code Generation
8.0
9.0
Image Understanding
7.0
7.0
Web Browsing
9.0
8.0
Multimodal
7.0
7.0
Long Context
10.0
9.0
Reasoning
8.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
Long-document chatChinese-language workResearch
CodingMathReasoningCost-sensitive deployments
Best For
Chinese-speaking professionalsResearchersWriters
DevelopersChinese-speaking usersAPI cost-optimisers
Pricing
Free Tier
Generous free chat
Free chat
Paid Plan
Kimi+: ¥99/month
Free chat
API Pricing
From ¥12/M input tokens
From $0.27/M input tokens
Enterprise
Custom
Custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
84
88
HumanEval (Coding)
86
91
GSM8K (Math)
90
95
Context Window
2.0M tokens
128K tokens
Languages
English
medium
high
Chinese
high
high
Multilingual
medium
medium
Editorial
Overall Score
8.5
8.9
Value for Money
9.5
10.0
Accuracy
8.5
8.8
Ease of Use
9.0
8.0
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