Kimi

Kimi is Moonshot AI's assistant. Its Kimi K3 model (July 2026) is the world's first open 3T-class model with a 1M-token context and native vision — matching top US models like GPT and Claude, largely for free.

Use it via Kimi.com, the Kimi app, Kimi Work (desktop) and Kimi Code (terminal), or the low-cost API.

Kimi, from Moonshot AI, is notable for offering frontier-level capability largely for free, with a very long context window and vision built in. That makes it a strong option for reading long documents and for developers who want capable open weights they can self-host.

Demand has at times overloaded its servers, so availability can be uneven. Its hosted service is operated from China, which matters for any sensitive or regulated data — self-hosting the weights avoids that.

For the same open-weight flexibility from other labs, Mistral and Qwen are the alternatives. For a polished everyday assistant with Indian-language strengths, Gemini is the more convenient free choice.