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Kimi vs ChatGPT
Kimi (Moonshot AI) vs ChatGPT (OpenAI) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-20.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
Chinese AI assistant famous for its 2M+ token context window and document chat.
Pick Kimi over ChatGPT if you need: Long-document chat or Chinese-language work.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used AI chatbot, powered by GPT-4o and GPT-5.
Pick ChatGPT over Kimi if you need: Writing or Coding.
Full comparison table
Dimension
Kimi
Moonshot AI
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Basics
Company
Moonshot AI
OpenAI
Released
2023-10-09
2022-11-30
Latest Version
Kimi K2
GPT-5
Capabilities
Text Generation
9.0
10.0
Code Generation
8.0
9.0
Image Understanding
7.0
9.0
Web Browsing
9.0
9.0
Multimodal
7.0
10.0
Long Context
10.0
8.0
Reasoning
8.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
Long-document chatChinese-language workResearch
WritingCodingResearchBrainstorming
Best For
Chinese-speaking professionalsResearchersWriters
General usersWritersStudentsMarketers
Pricing
Free Tier
Generous free chat
GPT-5 mini access, limited messages
Paid Plan
Kimi+: ¥99/month
Plus: $20/month
API Pricing
From ¥12/M input tokens
From $1.25/M input tokens (gpt-5)
Enterprise
Custom
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
84
91
HumanEval (Coding)
86
92
GSM8K (Math)
90
95
Context Window
2.0M tokens
256K tokens
Languages
English
medium
high
Chinese
high
high
Multilingual
medium
high
Editorial
Overall Score
8.5
9.5
Value for Money
9.5
9.0
Accuracy
8.5
9.0
Ease of Use
9.0
10.0
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