Verification Date: February 3, 2026
Methodology: Primary source documentation, screenshot verification, comparative analysis

This page establishes evidence levels for claims made about Kimi k2.5 pricing, capabilities, and technical specifications. For strategic analysis, see the pricing strategy post. For data handling risks, see /risks/kimi/.

Evidence Level Definitions

LevelCriteriaConfidence
HighPrimary source + dated screenshot or official documentation90%+ verified
MediumPrimary source + supporting signal (community reports, secondary confirmation)70-89% likely
LowPartial sources, unconfirmed, or contradictory signals50-69% uncertain
Verify NeededClaim made but insufficient evidence<50% unknown

Pricing Claims

Claim: “$0.99 first-month pricing available via Kimmmmy AI agent”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

  • Kimi Black Friday Promotion Terms — Official terms document “New User First-Month Deal Bargain” (verified Feb 3, 2026)
  • Pricing screenshots from kimi.com/code showing dynamic pricing interface (user verified)
  • Observational reports: $0.99 to $11.99 range confirmed by multiple users

Verification Details:

  • Mechanism: AI agent “Kimmmmy” negotiates price via conversation
  • Range: $0.99 (observed low) to $11.99 (observed high)
  • Auto-renewal: Converts to $19/month Moderato after 30 days unless cancelled
  • Geographic restriction: “Outside mainland China only”

Caveats:

  • Dynamic pricing means individual results vary
  • Terms state “AI-generated content is for reference only” — screenshot final offer before accepting
  • Promotional offer subject to change without notice

Claim: “Kimi Code Moderato costs $19/month”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

  • kimi.com/code pricing page — Screenshot verified showing “Moderato $19/month” (verified Jan 31, 2026)
  • Promotion terms confirming post-trial pricing

Verification Details:

  • Base price: $19/month billed monthly
  • Annual savings: Allegretto “Save up to $480” per UI element
  • Trial: 7-day free, auto-renews to $19 unless cancelled

Invalidation Triggers:

  • Pricing change from $19/month
  • Trial duration modification
  • Auto-renewal terms changed

Claim: “OpenCode Zen offers free Kimi k2.5”

Evidence Level: OUTDATED ⚠️

Historical Status (Feb 2026):

  • OpenCode Zen previously offered Kimi k2.5 + GLM 4.7
  • User testing confirmed Feb 1, 2026
  • Was the only ongoing free option after Kilo Code removed access Feb 3, 2026

Current Status (April 2026):

  • ❌ OpenCode Zen NO LONGER offers Kimi k2.5
  • Current free models: Qwen 3.6 Pro + MiniMax M2.5
  • GLM (all versions) also removed from free tier

For Free Kimi k2.5 (current options):

Claim: “Kilo Code offers free Kimi k2.5”

Evidence Level: HIGH — DEPRECATED ✗

Sources:

  • Previously verified via kilo.ai dashboard (Feb 1, 2026)
  • User reports of removal (Feb 3, 2026)

Status: CLAIM NOW FALSE

Update Log:

  • Jan 27-Feb 3, 2026: Free Kimi k2.5 via hosted tier (promotional)
  • Feb 3, 2026: Free tier removed — Kilo Code now requires API keys or paid subscription
  • Current status: BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys) only for Kimi k2.5

Implication: Content referencing free Kilo Code Kimi k2.5 is outdated and requires updating.

Claim: “OK Computer units expire monthly”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

Verification Details:

  • Pre-Jan 1, 2026 credits: Expired Jan 31, 2026
  • Post-Jan 1, 2026 credits: Valid only for calendar month granted, expire at month start
  • Reward amount: 10 units for successful referral (one-time per referrer)
  • Usage: OK Computer feature only (not general Kimi usage)

Caveats:

  • Aggressive expiration policy reduces real value
  • Monthly calendar expiration means Jan 31st credits expire Feb 1

Technical Capability Claims

Claim: “Kimi k2.5 scores 76.8% on SWE-bench Verified”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

Verification Details:

  • Score: 76.8% SWE-bench Verified
  • Mode: Non-thinking mode (thinking mode scores higher on reasoning benchmarks)
  • Comparison: Within 4 points of Claude Opus 4.5 (80.9%)
  • SWE-bench Multilingual: 73.0% (additional verified metric)

Methodology Note:

  • SWE-bench Verified is a standardized software engineering benchmark
  • Scores are reproducible via official evaluation harness
  • Moonshot’s reported score matches community verification attempts

Claim: “Kimi k2.5 supports up to 100 sub-agents (swarm)”

Evidence Level: MEDIUM ⚠️

Sources:

  • Kimi.com blog and marketing materials — Claims of “up to 100 sub-agents”
  • Moonshot AI documentation: “Research Preview Agent Swarm” on Allegretto+
  • Technical architecture: MoE (Mixture of Experts) enables parallel processing

Verification Details:

  • Moderato ($19): “Agent multi-tasking” — Limited parallel agents, NOT full swarm
  • Allegretto ($39): “Research Preview Agent Swarm” — Claims up to 100 sub-agents (beta)
  • Status: Beta feature, not personally tested as of Feb 3, 2026
  • Availability: Paid tiers only (Allegretto, Vivace)

Gaps:

  • No independent third-party verification of 100-agent coordination
  • “Up to 100” implies maximum, not typical or guaranteed
  • Coordination mechanism unclear (true orchestration vs parallel API calls)

Recommendation: Treat as marketing claim pending independent testing. Current status: Documented, not verified through hands-on testing.

Claim: “Kimi k2.5 has 256K context window”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

Verification Details:

  • Context: 256,000 tokens
  • Equivalent: ~200,000 words or large codebases
  • Comparison: 28% larger than Claude Opus 4.5 (200K), 4x smaller than Gemini 3 Flash (1M)

Claim: “Kimi k2.5 is natively multimodal”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

  • Technical blog: “Built on continued pretraining over 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens”
  • Model card: MoonViT vision encoder specification
  • Community demonstrations: Video-to-code, image-to-UI examples

Verification Details:

  • Architecture: Native vision encoder (MoonViT)
  • Capabilities: Video, image, text processing
  • Resolution: Up to 3.2 million pixels
  • Use cases: Video-to-code reconstruction, UI generation from mockups

Policy and Terms Claims

Claim: “Mainland China users excluded”

Evidence Level: HIGH ✓

Sources:

Verification Details:

  • Quote: “This event is only available outside mainland China. Users in mainland China are not supported.”
  • Some regions restricted due to “payment capabilities or policy regulations”

Implication: Moonshot prioritizes international users over domestic market despite Chinese company status.

Claim: “No training on API calls”

Evidence Level: MEDIUM ⚠️

Sources:

  • Moonshot Platform documentation (implied by API business tier)
  • Community reports and developer discussions
  • Comparison to Anthropic/OpenAI API policies

Verification Details:

  • API tier: Claimed no training (standard for paid API services)
  • Free tiers: Likely used for training (implied by terms mentioning “data collection”)
  • Documentation: Less explicit than Anthropic’s detailed policies

Gaps:

  • No detailed data handling白皮书
  • Less transparency than US competitors
  • Terms subject to change

Recommendation: Assume API tier is safe for commercial use, but free tiers train on data (standard industry practice).

Claims Pending Verification

“Agent swarm 4.5x speedup on research tasks”

Status: VERIFY NEEDED

Source: Kimi marketing materials Gap: No independent benchmark, no controlled testing performed Plan: Test and measure once Allegretto access obtained

“Allegretto offers 2x quota vs Moderato”

Status: MEDIUM ⚠️

Source: Pricing page claims, community reports Evidence:

  • Kimi Code: 2,048 requests/week (Moderato) → ~7,168 requests/week (Allegretto) = ~3.5x
  • K2.5 usage: “2x quota” per official documentation
  • Agent quota: 2 concurrent → 4 concurrent tasks

Gap: Exact token counts not published; “2x” is relative multiplier, not absolute numbers Verification: Based on community reports (Reddit, X posts Feb 2026) and pricing page UI

“Allegretto required for full Agent Swarm (100 sub-agents)”

Status: HIGH ✅

Source: Multiple verified sources Evidence:

  • Official Kimi announcements: “Beta Access: Now open for Allegretto members and above” (Feb 15-17, 2026)
  • Community consensus (Reddit r/kimi, X posts Feb 2026): Dozens of users confirm Allegretto minimum
  • Reviews/comparison sites: onedollarvps.com, kimik2ai.com, Medium/Code Coup all state “Agent Swarm: Allegretto+”
  • Moonshot pricing page: “Research Preview Agent Swarm” listed under Allegretto tier only

Technical specs (from verified sources):

  • Up to 100 parallel sub-agents per prompt
  • Up to 1,500 tool calls per prompt
  • ~100 tokens/sec (vs ~15 on Moderato)

Limitations on lower tiers:

  • Moderato: “Basic agent mode” only, very limited Swarm credits (few runs/month max)
  • Free tier: Almost useless for Swarm

“Moderato hits ‘agent quota exhausted’ fast on heavy use”

Status: MEDIUM ⚠️

Source: Community reports (Reddit, X, Discord — Feb 2026) Evidence: Multiple user reports of hitting limits with message: “agent quota exhausted” on Moderato Gap: No official documentation of exact limits; “heavy use” is subjective Context: Users doing 5-10+ swarm-style sessions per week report upgrading to Allegretto

“Vivace provides priority access during peak hours”

Status: MEDIUM ⚠️

Source: Pricing page UI element Gap: No objective measure of “priority” vs standard access Verification: Requires comparative load testing

Verification Methodology Notes

Sources Hierarchy

  1. Primary: Official documentation, screenshots, API responses
  2. Secondary: Community reports, developer forums, social media
  3. Tertiary: Analyst reports, news articles, aggregators

Update Frequency

  • Pricing claims: Verified weekly (promotional offers change)
  • Technical specs: Verified monthly (stable but worth confirming)
  • Policy terms: Verified quarterly (watch for ToS changes)

Invalidation Triggers

Articles should be updated when:

  • Pricing changes from documented amounts
  • Feature availability shifts tiers
  • Terms modify data handling policies
  • Competitive landscape changes significantly

Verification Checklist for Content

When referencing Kimi claims in articles, include:

  • Evidence level tag (high/medium/low)
  • Last verified date
  • Primary source link
  • Caveats or limitations noted
  • Invalidation triggers documented

Example:

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**Pricing**: $0.99-$11.99 first month via Kimmmmy agent 
([verified Feb 3, 2026](/verify/kimi-claims/)) — Results vary, screenshot before accepting.

Verification methodology: Primary source documentation review, screenshot verification, community signal aggregation
Last comprehensive review: February 25, 2026
Next scheduled review: March 3, 2026 (pricing), March 3, 2026 (technical specs)