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KimiPerplexity

Compare AI products	Kimi Visit Site	Perplexity Visit Site
Rating	9.4	9.6
Category	Chat models	Search & research
Vendor	Moonshot AI	Perplexity AI
Started	2023	2022
Region	China	Global
China availability	Works in China	Overseas access
Pricing tier	Free tier	Free tier
Current flagship	Kimi k1.5 / K3	Perplexity Pro / Deep Research
Open source	Yes	No
Self-hostable	Yes	No
Capability tags	Long contextAutonomous agentCodingStrong Chinese	Cited searchRealtime info
Latest release	Jul 2026 · Kimi K3	Jul 2026 · GPT-5.6 / Claude 5 routing
Strengths	Long-context pioneer with seamless 2M-token document analysis k1.5 multimodal reasoning + Explorer mode provide premier deep-research capabilities	Gold standard AI search engine; live web retrieval with precise cited references Pro Search & Deep Research multi-step reasoning with switchable frontier backends
Caveats	Multi-file software engineering is less focused than dedicated coding agents	Subject to source site indexing and paywalled/anti-scraping limitations

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