r/kimi

▲ 21 r/kimi

WTF is happening

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Since this morning, I’ve been getting a message saying that I don’t have enough balance, even though I still have almost my entire weekly quota remaining, as well as the 10% hidden monthly usage allowance.

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This is so frustrating!!!! WTF can you even do in this situation. I am beyond cooked

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u/thegodkingreal — 14 hours ago
▲ 47 r/kimi

Rip kimi

Since it migrated to the new address it's completely unusable. You get one question answered then all other queries are refused with a prompt to upgrade.

It's unusable like this. I'm not going to pay for a service that is unavailable or I can't try out thoroughly.

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u/JackStrawWitchita — 21 hours ago
▲ 2 r/kimi

is there any other way to use kimi for free (just chat api key doesn't matter)

it's always just "too many people chatting rn" no matter how much i spam which is making me think they just restricted it and are using a generic message to get people to subscribe. is there any other way to use kimi for free or are there are any similar models to kimi that don't have these restrictions? i tried qwen and it's the best i could find sometimes it does have limits but it barely does like basically no limits, i also found glm and while it goes after you spam alot, it's extremely annoying and if it limits at a single task you have to regenerate the whole prompt. in my experience i recommend qwen but idk if there are any better ones than qwen or if theres any other way to use kimi k3 max for free.

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u/Same-Leadership1630 — 12 hours ago
▲ 0 r/kimi

I finally test Kimi k3, my 2 cents below

Did a quick demo with r/threejs , animating 120K light particles.

It did a really good job, though it took a few nudges to get there. My main issues are speed and cost. It was a bit slow to complete the task, and using the API via OpenRouter feels somewhat pricey. This demo alone cost me $7.49.

Still, very impressive. If only it could've worked a bit faster...

Demo: https://aifnet-public.b-cdn.net/demos/aurora-flux.html

u/smith2008 — 15 hours ago
▲ 76 r/kimi

For people who used opus/fable extensively, how much better/worse is kimi?

I'm trying to figure out if I should renew my Kimi subscription or try out Claude.

The two use cases I care about right now:

  1. Coding architecture, writing the code itself

  2. Strategy, research(long running web search)

What are your thoughts?

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u/Constant_Cortisol — 1 day ago
▲ 0 r/kimi

Moonshot refused a same-day refund for an auto-renewal I didn’t want to keep

I was charged for a Kimi / Moonshot auto-renewal I had not cancelled. I wrote to support the same minute and asked for a refund. They refused.

This is the first time I have seen this. Cursor, Lovable and other tools have charged me by mistake or by auto-renewal before — all of them refunded. Kimi support is the first to refuse outright.

On the highest-tier plan, usage also feels much more aggressive now. Two short questions took about 2% of the weekly limit. For comparison, Grok can build a full landing page on roughly the same 2%, and that plan costs about 30% of yours.

Has anyone else got a refund after a same-day request? If yes, what did you write?

Think twice before you subscribe. If they charge you, do not count on a refund — even if you write the same minute.

u/creativenew — 18 hours ago
▲ 1 r/kimi

How to prevent Kimi CLI to overexploring and waste tokens?

Kimi K3 used for coding tasks is great! But in the moment i use it as a specific role in my server PM for instance, he starts overdoing/overexploring and burning a lot of tokens unnecessarily.

How have you created a skill or harness that limit the level of exploration Kimi CLI does ? I do use ~yolo mode because most of the projects here are Pet projects with tons of backup, so i don't care if they fuck shit up (preferebly not of course =) )

But i don't have the same issue with Codex or Claude for instance, they remain straight to the point.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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u/3rd_Floor_Again — 19 hours ago
▲ 72 r/kimi

POV: The average experience of using KIMI

Too many people are chatting with Kimi right now. Subscribe to enter a dedicated priority queue!

u/Mountain-Minimum217 — 1 day ago
▲ 1 r/kimi

"All models are temporarily rate limited"

I'm on the Allegreto, $40/month plan.

I honestly think Kimi has the best and most affordable models out there. That's why I've been paying for their higher tier plan.

But over the past month or so things have gotten so bad, that I feel like I'm just being scammed at those point.

The screenshots attached are from different days and sessions btw, not from a single session.

I mailed their customer support several times. All they do is rehash talking points or copy and paste terms of use.

Posted many times on Twitter. No response. Not even an acknowledgement.
Frustrated, I've turned to Reddit. I search for "Kimi reddit", found this reddit, and saw many other highly upvoted posts with exactly the same concerns.

Honestly, this is sad more than anything else.

I realise the kind of pressures they must be under! And I'm willing to work with them! But there has to be some response, some feedback, some sense that they actually give a damn about anything other than taking my money!!!

I even suspect that targeted cyber attacks against their infrastructure from their competitors might be playing a role in this. I'm willing to give them THAT much credit because I genuinely feel there's something special about this company and its work.

But with every "rate limit" message I'm losing trust and patience. I don't know what to do.

Edit: I expected somebody to say this exact thing "check your quota". I did. I do every few minutes. I'm at 39% usage for the month. My weekly and 5 hour quotas show 100% remaining. I even asked Kimi support for a clarification about this. Just cut and pasted something from terms of use.

u/Space_cadet79 — 1 day ago
▲ 115 r/kimi

Watched Kimi K3, beat Opus 5 on the same prompt recreating a samurai game's main menu

saw a side by side test where someone gave the same prompt to Kimi K3 and Opus 5, recreate the main menu of a samurai era open world game from scratch, field, grass, a katana, the whole atmosphere. Went in assuming Opus 5 would take it by default the way it usually does on this kind of task, and it did not.

Kimi K3‘s version of the field and grass reads more alive, less like a flat texture pass. the katana render holds detail better up close, and the overall mood of the scene, the light through the grass, the quiet menu-screen stillness, comes through stronger. Opus 5 was not bad, it just looked like the safer, more generic pass next to it.

this was not an image model doing the rendering, it was a coding model writing the scene from a text prompt, and that is what makes the gap notable, it comes down to how well each model reasons through composition and detail before a single line of the scene gets written.Watched Kimi K3, the open-weight one, beat Opus 5 on the same prompt recreating a samurai game's main menu

u/Practical_Low29 — 1 day ago
▲ 23 r/kimi

Is kimi ded for free users

Guys I've been pissed bout this outage like from yesterday noon I wasn't able to get a single prompt in its frustrating (I'm a student)

Have they shut down kimi 2.6?

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u/lord_vanden09 — 1 day ago
▲ 13 r/kimi

A friend of mine is a PhD student and writing thesis and she was using claude but I recommend her to use kimi due to my bias ,and she actually liked kimi 3 more than claude opus 5 ,I was surprised

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u/Klutzy_Painter_7240 — 1 day ago
▲ 7 r/kimi

Held hostage, but I think I am breaking away

I am due for plan my renewal soon. Allegro. 

I left for a trip for SF 5 days ago and had 5% of my monthly kimi quota left. I look at my logs and the last quota that was used was on 8/11, which matches up. 

But today I see that my monthly is now 100% spent. So the quota must’ve contracted even further while I wasn’t using it this past week. I did not get a reset. 

Everyone else commented on other posts that they did. 

Kimi is great. In the web especially. For building beautiful UX. Its the best in the world hands down right now. 

But they are too constrained on compute. The 100 dollars goes 1/10th as far as openai’s. I’m afraid I am done for now. 

I have an unsustainable amount of ai subscriptions right now. Claude 20x and openai 20x and kimi allegro. This past month has been a blast and I have been maxing them all out. They also all have been squeezing their users. 

I will probably never leave claude. But I already set my openai 20x to downgrade to plus at the end of the month. I wont need as much tokens since my app is nearing completion. 

I will miss the refined touch of kimi and no where to go if I need it again. 

But yea, way too token restrictive.

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u/frogchungus — 1 day ago
▲ 3 r/kimi+1 crossposts

I found a hack to bypass the long never ending waiting list of kimi subscription 🤧

So if you are logged in from Google that I am assuming most of you guys are just simply logout and try logging in via your phone number once you enter it you will get OTP from +44 number via whatsapp then you will find option to enter waitlist as soon as you click it you will have option to subscribe to the premium membership the exact moment you click join waitlist and that's pretty much it enjoy using K3 🤓

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u/Yash_Barai — 1 day ago
▲ 2 r/kimi

Is this happening to anyone else?

Kimi isn’t answering. Just this response only. It just started doing it

u/crowngrandroyalty — 1 day ago
▲ 2 r/kimi

How is the writing quality and presentations?

I'm having issues with Claude, especially with how Opus 5 is so shit. Could you tell how is Kimi K3 compared to Opus 5 for me, focusing on presentations, written assignments, and strategic planning?

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u/Dangerous-Map-429 — 1 day ago