Kimi 月之暗面
China · Beijing
alternative to OpenAI / Claude / Meta Muse / dots / Grok Bot
Moonshot's Kimi combines K3 chat and open weights with Agent, Work, Code, Swarm and the always-on Kimi Claw.
Why it fits
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
- AI stack
Regional alternatives
Model & licence
- Access
- open weights
- Licence
- Kimi K3 License
- Modalities
- text, vision, video, code
- Context
- 1M
Capability rank #3 (manual, as of 2026-10). Editorial snapshot across public 2026 benchmark reports; rankings move often.
Independence & portability
Strategic independence · 92/100
- Deployment
- air gapped
- Data control
- self hosted
- Portability
- high
- Supply-chain
- high
- Ecosystem
- mature
- Openness
- partly open (12/15)
Procurement/migration signal, not a certification. As of 2026-10. Kimi K3 open weights under a custom license; 1M context and local vLLM/SGLang deployment, with conditions for large commercial services. How this is scored.
Regulatory & supply-chain notes
Draft for comment: Kimi K3 (reported at about 2.8 trillion parameters) is above the draft's 2-trillion-parameter line. Weights already open-sourced, and serving the model abroad through an API, app or SaaS, stay outside the draft; a new open-source release would need an automatic licence and deployment on servers abroad a licence. Until the catalogue is final, exports of listed technology must be registered first.
China export control (MOFCOM) · MOFCOM/MOST Announcement No. 48 of 2026 (draft revision of the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export, item 266504X) · draft, comments until 2026-11-15 · source ↗
Company & market
- Parent company
- Moonshot AI
- Registered
- Beijing
- Listing
- IPO filed
- Ticker
- —
- Market cap / val. (USD)
- ~$50 B (reported pre-IPO)
- Foreign-investable
- No