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Kimi
Moonshot AI's open-weight assistant with strong agentic coding.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep it — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the AI assistants job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Frontier labs cut prices and shipped agentic modes. OpenAI, July 11, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: DeepSeek and Qwen.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- July 11, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Kimi's K2 models put open weights close enough to frontier coding performance that developers started routing real work to them, at a fraction of the token price. It is on this list as a price weapon: every open model that lands near the frontier compresses what closed APIs can charge.
Escape hatches
D 
DeepSeek Comparable open-weight models.
deepseek.com open_in_new Q 
Qwen Alibaba's open model family.
qwen.ai open_in_new C 
Claude Stronger on long agentic tasks.
claude.com open_in_new2 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.