Kimi 月之暗面

alternative to Claude / GPT

AI stack Private Open source
foundation-model · open-weights

Long-context models and chat assistant from Moonshot AI.

License: Modified MIT

Modalities: text, vision, code · 256K context

Capability rank #3 (manual, as of 2026-06). Snapshot from public 2026 leaderboards; rankings move often.

Parent
Moonshot AI
Registered
Beijing
Ticker
Cap / valuation
private

Independence & Portability Strategic independence · 95/100

Deployment
air gapped
Data control
self hosted
Portability
high
Supply-chain
high
Ecosystem
mature
Openness
open source (15/15)

Procurement/migration signal, not a certification. As of 2026-06. Open-weight Kimi K2 repo; self-host / air-gap capable; growing runtime ecosystem. How this is scored.

A China-based alternative to