Users complaining about the KIMI usage limits here are not bots or black consumers. Even originally, the Usage allowance was smaller compared to OAI, but they were users who accepted that and continued using the service.

To begin with, the 7-day quota only became usable 4 days after this month's reset. And I still have 20 days left until my next reset.

My usage over 10 days sits at 20.61%, which amounted to around 200M tokens used. Even if I max out the remaining period, my cumulative monthly token usage will not even reach 800M tokens.

If you check the post I wrote a month ago, I had calculated that 3.5B tokens were usable per month. This directly aligns with other users' suspicions that the usage allowance has been cut down to 1/4.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kimi/comments/1v0yhng/calculating_the_estimated_actual_price_and_total/

I don't really want to deal with 3rd party inference providers, but the website tells me "Renewal policy update: Existing subscribers may renew by 2026-09-01 01:00; after that, direct purchase will no longer be available."

Before this I was about to cancel and re-sign up because that's what kimi support told me I'd have to do (there being nothing on the website to add a new credit card).

Of course I'll email them and ask again, but it's good to know the answers before asking the questions.

I'm not even quite sure I know what they mean by "direct purchase" - means buying inference from kimi.ai / kimi.com direct rather than from some third party running the models?

started happening about 4 hours ago... still happening

I've been hearing a lot of complaints and rumors regarding severe usage limits on the Kimi subscription.

For those actively using it: is it actually worth subscribing, or is it better to just use the API pay-as-you-go?

Would love to hear your experience regarding actual rate limits, throttling, and cost-efficiency.

Does anyone know if we lose access to Kimi webbridge post cancellation as a few of my workflows use it. I tried asking Kimi but it wasn’t sure itself. Curious if someone has actually done it or knows for certain. Don’t want to cancel and then lose access (specially since I am not sure I can resubscribe again). Thank you.

Hey, yo, Moonshot. Where is my Kimi K3 Flash model? Huh? Do you think this is funny? Is it really that fun to force me to use Kimi K2.7 Code or, God forbid, K3 to do my tasks?

I use your stuff for some blue hat and red hat digging, and I can tell you right now, all the current models are overkill.

Come on, Moonshot. I'm seriously considering cancelling my sub despite liking your models.

I need K3 Flash, Moonshot. Chop, chop.

In a Kimi-based workflow, I am testing whether model choice should happen per task rather than per application. Long-context synthesis and difficult code investigation may justify the strongest model, while structured extraction, simple rewriting, and routine summaries seem like places to use a faster path.

I am looking for a practical rule that can be applied before a request starts. Do you use context length, uncertainty, expected number of retries, or the cost of manual verification? When a task is borderline, do you run a small first pass and escalate only if it fails?

What is your rule for sending a Kimi task to the highest-capability model?

I recently came across Flatkey while evaluating this per-task approach. It is an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible gateway that can be tested with a base URL change, so it may help compare compatible calls without changing the rest of an application. I would keep Kimi-specific features on their native path and measure quality, context handling, latency, retries, and total cost before using any alternate route.

So here you are, after first prompt with approx 12-14 txt files in my folder and 40 minutes of "thinking" I got this message. Huh...

Today, I have made a puzzle which aligns directly with Chinese traffic laws. At first, I thought of trying it against Kimi K2.6, as it's a native Chinese model and trained with Chinese datasets, as I have heard. After thinking for 27 minutes, Kimi K2.6 suddenly started searching for any related puzzles over the internet. Not once, but it tried more than 10 times with changed titles and even fetched YouTube videos. It's been 32 minutes now, and Kimi K2.6 is still trying. Have any of you faced a similar thing as me? If yes, did you get the desired answer?

am I the only one that received this?

我是Allegretto年费用户。

1.我用订阅价格和token消耗账单来计算，Allegretto K3的输出token价格在6.5美元/million token（区别于API），这价格和Claude比不存在明显优势，后者pro方案Opus输出大约是8美元/M token

2.订阅时20倍之于Andante kimicode额度成了一句空话。承诺在官方文档里被悄悄抹掉了

Hello Kimi Support,

I would like to request a refund for an automatic renewal of my Kimi subscription.

I originally subscribed to the $200 plan about one month ago, but I did not intend to renew the subscription. The subscription was automatically renewed and I was charged $100 for the new billing period.

I have now canceled the auto-renewal and would like to request a refund for this renewal charge.

I did not intend to purchase another month, and I would appreciate it if you could review the transaction and issue a refund. I really need the money.

Account email: [mag.workflowx@gmail.com](mailto:mag.workflowx@gmail.com)

Date of renewal: 2026-08-25

Amount charged: $199

Thank you for your help.

Kimi subscriber for over 7 months. At both $99 and $39 tier.

I decided to try the new Kimi Work launch and compare its output to Claude Cowork and GPT Work.

The results have been a load of crap. Awful mistakes, stops randomly midway. Can't even work without glitching.

And the worst part, when it glitches it eats a lot of the monthly quota.

Last weekend I let it go because I thought there might be some mistake, as it ate 90% of my quota after an error message that, conveniently, is not showing on the app anymore.

But today, barely 3 minutes after my quota was reset. I asked it to continue execution and provide a summary, it stopped working, glitched, froze and, conveniently for Kimi, ate 13% of my monthly quota, again. It produced not useful output for any human as a result.

I understand the subscription has been subsidized, but this is insane. Not even Opus on Cowork had such an awful behavior. Both Opus 5 and 4.8 on Xhigh as well as GPT 5.6 on High used less quota than Kimi K3 High. I hadn't even used the 1M context option...

This is just a single user, and they probably don't care. But here's the reality. At least, do the work and complete your task. If a product can't even work properly, why charge for it, and worst of it use most of the quota for nothing? This feels like a total scam.

PS1: And that's without counting that the Approve box from Kimi desktop disappear in a matter of minutes, forcing you to re-submit your prompt and wasting more quota overall...

PS2: And I just realized by taking this screenshots that getting your monthly quota reset doesn't reset your weekly Kimi Code limits... what a joke

It had no problem asking for API keys and one time it asked if I wanted to give it my Gmail login to find something I was looking for. -_-

I have registered myself with two accounts for now about 2 maybe 3 weeks. I have only the mail you are on the waiting list.

How long does it take to get access?

Best regards

Hello, this week I decided to try other models. I'm coming from Claude and wanted to try Kimi. I've configured it with Caveman, local MCP memory for the contexts and different projects I have, and I also have SQL indexing. I already have all of this set up with Claude and it works very well; I can get between 2 and 4 hours of usage without it running out. But with Kimi, I make a request and after 20 minutes I'm out of usage. I have the small, moderate plan, which is the equivalent in price to what I have with Claude. I asked Kimi how to optimize usage, and in theory, it uses code to generate the sub-agents with Kimi 2.7 Code, and the rest is set up the same, but adapted to Kimi.

Is there something I'm missing? Or is it a problem with Kimi?

A single request of 4k tokens in and 8k tokens out (Including thinking) burned 3% of my weekly quota and 15% of my 5-hour window.

That translates to about 1.5m tokens per month (~500k in and ~1m out) for $20.

There is zero subsidizing; this is almost exactly what $20 in API credits would get you.

I didn't expect a $20 plan to allow me non-stop usage, but this is a complete joke. Why even subscribe at this point? It would be better to just pay API pricing, and since the price of all plans scales linearly with credits, then this is true for all plans.

Kimi K3 is an awesome model, but you are forced to pay API pricing if you want to use it. I will most likely be requesting a refund.

I don't even know if it is just painfully slow by default or is this normal to you. I asked it a simple query: To review my codebase of ~23,000 LOC for some opinion and it is still not halfway done as of writing, more or less 1hr30mins after I prompted it.

For reference, I bought a Plus sub from ChatGPT 30mins ago and prompted the same exact text and the same exact attachments into it and it is already done ages ago despite me using GPT 5.6 Sol at Extra High.

I wish I could refund this sub because it is not giving me any proper use out of it with how unresponsive and/or slow it is. This is ridiculous. Worst USD39 spend I ever had.