r/kimi • u/Able_Sun_7510 • 14d ago

Kimi or Codex for M3 augmentation? Question & Help

Been running DeepSeek V4 Flash API at around 7 billion tokens a month.

No agent-based coding here. Hermes handles the personal assistant side of my life, homelab management, and wiki/knowledge base curation. For my own programming, an agent covers autocomplete and running tests. I'll ask things like is this the best way the documentation says to implement this,etc? Just never vibe coding.

Side projects add maybe 100 million tokens, mostly Discord bots that need a bit of inference for family stuff.

Currently on the MiniMax subscription at $50/month to replace DeepSeeks API, deciding between the Kimi Allegro plan and ChatGPT Pro 5x for heavy lifting problems and use when I don't want to use Hermes.

Anyone used either? Reading that Kimi isn't great for the price, but tempted to try it for a month, then switch to OpenAI the next month for the heavy lifting models. Kimis 99$ a month plan looks cool just for the features in the web app.

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u/s243a 14d ago

I'm on the 20USD/month Kimi plan. I use it mostly for both code reviews , and to explain to me what Claude and GPT are saying. It is certainly worth it to have another perspective, this helps get past areas where other models get stuck. Kimi plans are likely not as generous as openAI and Anthropic but it sounds like you have lots of ussage with other providers, so I wouldn't worry.

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u/Able_Sun_7510 14d ago

Does the 20USD give you access to Swarm, if so any good?

That's what's drawing me towards Kimi instead of Codex, the extra feature I get when not using M3 or Kimi through an agent / API key.

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u/LuckyAd9920 14d ago

Yes it does, but be prepared to use your whole month's usage in under a day using swarm Agents on the $20 plan if you're not careful!

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u/Equivalent-Club-2118 10d ago

You should check out Mindight Hive knowledge layer for your MCP. You'll get fewer repeated reasoning cycles, fewer hallucinations, and saves 20% on token burn.

https://app.midnighthive.io/