Okay, I need to get this off my chest. I've been testing Kimi for a few weeks now for some light market research and summarizing long articles, and I really like the long context. But when I went to check their paid plans, I hit a wall.
Their pricing page lists things like "Standard Plan: 2,000 messages" and "Pro Plan: 10,000 messages." But what exactly **counts** as a single 'message'? Is it:
* My prompt alone?
* My prompt + Kimi's entire reply as one unit?
* Every 1000 characters sent or received?
* Something else entirely?
This is crucial for benchmarking against other AI tools I use. For example, if a "message" here equals a single exchange (my question + its answer), that's very different from Claude's token-based system or ChatGPT's GPT-4o message caps. It makes a direct cost/benefit comparison impossible without knowing the unit of measure.
Has anyone done the math or seen an official breakdown? I don't want to upgrade only to find my 2,000 messages vanish in a day because I'm processing a few long PDFs.
Cheers,
Carla
Benchmarking my way to better decisions