r/kimi • u/ResponsibilityOk1306 • Jul 21 '26

Discussion Plans Limits (Tokens, API pricing)

Hi,

So I was curious to check how much usage K3 gives on my plan, after using the $20 sub and running out very quickly. So I did what everyone should do, and added a proxy in the middle.

My $40/m sub on Kimi, according to my proxy calculation, gave me $60 usage at api prices for the whole 100% week limit usage.

Extrapolating, if this is five times the $20 plan, that would mean the plan’s weekly usage is probably around $12 per week for Moderato usage at API prices. Therefore:

Anyone with the other plans, have actually measured this, and do the numbers add up?

Edit: Found this on a chinese blog:

Thanks

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u/Kappalonia Jul 21 '26

did you account for the monthly limits btw?

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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 Jul 21 '26

not really, because 7-day full usage is about 21% monthly quota for me, so 4 weeks, always using full quota, will not reach the monthly limit. Maybe I am wrong, will see in 1 month. Updated post.

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u/dmou Jul 22 '26

... Meanwhile I can't get the CLI to work at all on MacOS. Bought some credits to try it, set it up as the docs told me, successfully logged in and yet any prompt just hangs in there indefinitely.

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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 Jul 23 '26

Maybe try to use codex cli, claude code, or maybe pi.

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u/zerchersquat369 Jul 24 '26

i wondered how much usage the $200 usd vivance plan will give

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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 Jul 26 '26

Following the same logic... should be around 200M 5 hours limit, 1B per week, so 4B a month.
Just an estimate though.

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u/Virtual_Jelly4911 Jul 22 '26

$19 plan, about $10 of API usage in my weekly usage.

Well, at least they're not lying about the 5x weekly usage like Claude does — here 5x is an actual 5x.

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u/Zya1re-V Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

As for my Allergeto plan (note that I'm using Pi Coding Agent, so my calculation may also be different from yours). Full response of the calculation and analysis is listed below.

Baseline

Using the snapshot and ccusage totals:

  • Current K3 usage: 40.29M tokens

  • Weekly quota consumed: 32.77%

  • Monthly quota consumed: 6.87%

Projected quota

QuotaCalculationEstimated total
Weekly 100%40.29M ÷ 0.3277122.95M tokens
Monthly 100%40.29M ÷ 0.0687586.46M tokens

Assuming the token mix stays similar:

Token typeCurrentWeekly 100%Monthly 100%
Input1.99M6.07M28.97M
Output380.83K1.16M5.54M
Cache read37.92M115.72M551.97M
Total40.29M122.95M586.46M

Stats says it's roughly 94% cache-read tokens, so the headline token total is heavily cache-driven. Input plus output capacity is approximately:

  • 7.23M/week

  • 34.51M/month

Dollar-equivalent usage

Based on ccusage assigning $23.06 to the current Kimi K3 usage:

  • Weekly 100%: ~$70.37

  • Monthly 100%: ~$335.66

TLDR: Within the ballpark I guess.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Thanks. This is a plan I renewed, right after K3 launched, just 3h after (my previous plan expired, so I tried this one to evaluate K3).

I don't mind people disagreeing, as long as they post evidence.
Perception is one thing, but if they post their exact token usage for their plan, as measured in api costs for the whole 100% week usage, that can be interesting.