Kimi Code Moderato

LLM 3.7/10

Kimi K2.7 Code + K2.7 HighSpeed (~180 tok/s) + K2.6; ~300-1,200 requests/5h with weekly quota, up to 30 concurrent; OpenAI- AND Anthropic-compatible endpoints (Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, custom agents)

Kimi Code Moderato scores 3.7/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — $19/mo ($15/mo billed annually). Kimi K2.7 Code + K2.7 HighSpeed (~180 tok/s) + K2.6; ~300-1,200 requests/5h with weekly quota, up to 30 concurrent; OpenAI- AND Anthropic-compatible endpoints (Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, custom agents).

Category LLM Kind Paid plan Caveats K2.7 is thinking-only and far more token-hungry than K2.6; Moonshot native serving slower than third-party hosts; quota shared across CLI/VS Code/API keys

Free value score

3.7 / 10

Show the math

Model Quality 7.5/10

value = 42 artificial_analysis_score

weighted score = 0.2 * 7.5/10

Requests 5.5/10

value = 172800 req/mo

weighted score = 0.1 * 5.5/10

Access 10/10

value = 10/10

score = 10/10

Price Efficiency 2.4/10

value = 0.05 value/$

weighted score = 0.7 * 2.4/10

Key metrics

Kimi K2.7 Code 42 Best model

173K R/mo Requests/month

0.0526x Value ratio

What you get

Paid — $19/mo ($15/mo billed annually). Kimi K2.7 Code + K2.7 HighSpeed (~180 tok/s) + K2.6; ~300-1,200 requests/5h with weekly quota, up to 30 concurrent; OpenAI- AND Anthropic-compatible endpoints (Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, custom agents)

Cheapest K2.7 with real API access; entry quota is tight for token-hungry K2.7 — heavy users should skip to Allegretto

Sources

"Moderato $19/mo ($15/mo annual); Allegretto $39/mo ($31/mo annual); Kimi Code endpoints: api.kimi.com/coding (Anthropic) and /coding/v1 (OpenAI)"
https://www.kimi.com/code
"Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed ~180 tok/s (peak 260)"
https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs

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