You can speak to Kimmmmy, their sales bot for discounts to as low as 1$ if you provide good reasons.

https://www.kimi.com/kimiplus/sale

The pricing looks great.

Significantly much better than ~ USD 50 per day on Anthropic API.

Any idea how good this model compares to Opus 4.6?

I tried Grok 4.1 Fast but the results are mild to put it kindly.

Opus is definitely in its own league. I use Kimi/Gemini-cli code regularly to save cost and from my experience, Kimi 2.5 is more solid than Gemini Flash 3.0 for coding. While Gemini Flash 3.0 is generally faster, it usually break the syntax and skip important prompt. Kimi 2.5 can write very good code and can plan very well.

I've been using kimi, though not kimiclaw, for research and it is good - comparable to phind, better than GLM 4.7 . Opus 4.6 wasn't as good for my particular domain of interest. I think the long term pricing asymptote for US vs china is essentially dependent on energy pricing and so china will continue to undercut US AI pricing.

Did you scroll through the pricing options? The largest Kimi plan is $199/month. “Much better” depends on how much usage is included vs. Anthropic plans/API costs.

Kimi 2.5 is a great model. Especially for writing, understanding many different text sources, reasoning etc. I haven't personally used it for coding.

completely anecdote: vision seems > gemini 2.5 but less than 3.0

I haven't used it much for programming, but it feels like a model 6 months out of date for general use

Am I not understanding something obvious, or does that not actually tell you what runtime you get for any of the plans?

Super tempting.

Before you get one, do realize that Openclaws are a responsibility!