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DeepSeekKimi

Compare AI products	DeepSeek Visit Site	Kimi Visit Site
Rating	9.7	9.4
Category	Chat models	Chat models
Vendor	DeepSeek	Moonshot AI
Started	2023	2023
Region	China	China
China availability	Works in China	Works in China
Pricing tier	Free tier	Free tier
Current flagship	DeepSeek-V3 / DeepSeek-R1	Kimi k1.5 / K3
Open source	Yes	Yes
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
Capability tags	ReasoningLow costCodingStrong Chinese	Long contextAutonomous agentCodingStrong Chinese
Latest release	May 2026 · DeepSeek V4 Flash / Pro	Jul 2026 · Kimi K3
Notes	Open weights, self-hostable	—
Strengths	Frontier open-weights pioneer; V3/R1 rival proprietary flagships at fractional cost R1 shows breathtaking mathematical and coding depth with native Chinese fluency	Long-context pioneer with seamless 2M-token document analysis k1.5 multimodal reasoning + Explorer mode provide premier deep-research capabilities
Caveats	Official web portal and API experience occasional queuing during global traffic spikes	Multi-file software engineering is less focused than dedicated coding agents

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