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Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by Altern4tiveAcc »

thevinter wrote: post #15

Personal anecdote: I exhausted my Claude usage yesterday so I decided to spend 20$ to try Kimi while I was at it. Logged in, paid, downloaded Kimi Code, set it to use K3 and prompted something along the lines of: "Check this repository and find all the settings that can be passed as input related to hardware, I/O, thread control or networking. Produce a report". It thought for about 12 minutes and then told me I had…

I had the _exact_ same problem. Got the 20 USD/month subscription from Kimi.com (paid annually), exhausted my 5-hour quota with a simple prompt on OpenCode + Kimi K2.7 through their API. Cursor got the same prompt done in minutes.

According to their web interface, I'm also on 23% of my weekly usage. That feels crazy, as I do a lot more than that on the 20 USD Cursor plan, and never got even a warning.

I thought OpenCode was doing something wrong, but you had the same issue with Kimi Code.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by Moduke »

comandillos wrote: post #11

Oh, so they’ve decided to suspend subscriptions because they know they might not be able to guarantee a minimum quality of service to their customers?

> we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members

emphasis on _new_ subscriptions but otherwise yes that’s exactly it.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by ignoramous »

abalashov wrote: post #9

I've been using Kimi for coding tasks for close to six months now, and haven't looked back. I'll periodically try something on Claude to make sure I'm not missing anything, but I've been very happy. I just do the OpenRouter thing. My use of LLMs is narrow enough that cost is a negligible consideration either way.

Curious: On which plan? In my experience, their $20 plan is super inadequate as a daily driver (ditto for Qwen's $30/mo), though given K3, I'm tempted to trial $49/mo or $99/mo.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by Razengan »

Alifatisk wrote: post #19

> Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected. Such a beautiful paragraph to read, a company that prioritizes their current customers and focus on keeping them satisfied instead of just focusin…

> a company that prioritizes their current customers and focus on keeping them satisfied instead of just focusing on fast growth.

I always hated how the "Login" button is smaller on every website than the "Sign Up" button.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by abalashov »

ignoramous wrote: post #25
abalashov wrote: post #9

I've been using Kimi for coding tasks for close to six months now, and haven't looked back. I'll periodically try something on Claude to make sure I'm not missing anything, but I've been very happy. I just do the OpenRouter thing. My use of LLMs is narrow enough that cost is a negligible consideration either way.

Curious: On which plan? In my experience, their $20 plan is super inadequate as a daily driver (ditto for Qwen's $30/mo), though given K3, I'm tempted to trial $49/mo or $99/mo.

I just pay metered usage via OpenRouter. I've spent no more than $10-$20/mo, but my usage is, by the standards of so-called "agentic coding" these days, very light and confined.

I doubt my workflows match the profile of "daily driver" as you're conceiving of it. I'm mostly in the IDE chat box asking for a hand here and there, but no "long horizon" / big vision / architecture things. Occasionally, I'll solicit a general opinion, quite abstractly, which isn't very token-intensive. My contexts are tiny and I aim to keep them that way.

The only token-intensive thing I do is occasional analyses of open-source codebases along the lines of "what is the actual behaviour when message X comes in and is malformed like this?", or something else similarly far-reaching. For that, I use DeepSeek's Reasonix, which they savvily dropped at the exact moment the sting of Claude API pricing became a sensation. It's a very cache-oriented harness, and delivers on its promise of being very economical. I doubt I've spent more than $10 with DeepSeek over the months I've used it. When I want a harness to inhale a codebase and give me an answer, Reasonix has been the go-to for a while now, and it's great. DeepSeek-V4-Flash is enough for many simple things, though I just run it on DeepSeek-V4-Pro because it's so cheap that I don't care.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by sroerick »

himata4113 wrote: post #7

I wonder if anthropic and openai will remain relevant simply due to the fact that they're the only ones that are able to handle this much demand for the forseeable future? My bet would be that companies would probably not be too happy with employee time being wasted on outages and other related issues when it already costs so much.

I have been using synthetic and my understanding is that they plan on hosting Kimi3. Open models mean Inferrence is distributed

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by JoshTriplett »

Razengan wrote: post #26
Alifatisk wrote: post #19

> Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected. Such a beautiful paragraph to read, a company that prioritizes their current customers and focus on keeping them satisfied instead of just focusin…

> a company that prioritizes their current customers and focus on keeping them satisfied instead of just focusing on fast growth. I always hated how the "Login" button is smaller on every website than the "Sign Up" button.

> I always hated how the "Login" button is smaller on every website than the "Sign Up" button.

I always assumed that was because it's the least common flow. Once you've signed up, you're logged in, so the only time you should ever need the "login" button is on a new computer, or after logging out to switch accounts, or if the service offers a "remember me" checkbox (don't do that) and doesn't check it by default (definitely don't do that), or if the user genuinely wants to not be remembered (e.g. they used private browsing).

If you're having to use "login" on any regular basis, something in the overall flow needs improving.

Re: Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

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Post by ffsm8 »

Altern4tiveAcc wrote: post #21
thevinter wrote: post #15

Personal anecdote: I exhausted my Claude usage yesterday so I decided to spend 20$ to try Kimi while I was at it. Logged in, paid, downloaded Kimi Code, set it to use K3 and prompted something along the lines of: "Check this repository and find all the settings that can be passed as input related to hardware, I/O, thread control or networking. Produce a report". It thought for about 12 minutes and then told me I had…

I had the _exact_ same problem. Got the 20 USD/month subscription from Kimi.com (paid annually), exhausted my 5-hour quota with a simple prompt on OpenCode + Kimi K2.7 through their API. Cursor got the same prompt done in minutes. According to their web interface, I'm also on 23% of my weekly usage. That feels crazy, as I do a lot more than that on the 20 USD Cursor plan, and never got even a warning. I thought OpenC…

Moonshot AI has two subscriptions archetypes and the one they link to from their main page is the subscription for the web interface/research/agents/OpenClaw (that they host for you)

There is a small link below the tiles for these plans saying something "looking to use it for code? Use Kimi code" and upon clicking you'll get a basically identically looking subscription page with different sub prices and more quota

Non coding plans:

   * Plus (19 "base agent" -- wahtever that might be)
   * Pro (39 x2 )
   * Max (99 x6)
   * Ultra (199 x12)
> https://www.kimi.com/membership/pricing

Coding plans:

    * Starter (19 - "base coding")
    * Explorer (49 - x4)
    * Expert (99 x10)
    * Master (219 x25)
> https://www.kimi.com/code

I stumbled on that when i tried Kimi K2.5 back when that was released.

It's also worth mentioning that the $20 get you a 0.25 priority for API usage - because the others get x4 priority. So get ready for a _slow_ experience

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