@PrajwalTomar_: While everyone was paying $200/month for Claude, Kimi was quietly becoming the AI coding agent nobody outside China was…
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Kimi's K2.6 model offers a cheaper alternative to Claude with competitive performance on coding benchmarks, open weights, and long session support, making it attractive for solo developers.
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While everyone was paying $200/month for Claude, Kimi was quietly becoming the AI coding agent nobody outside China was watching.
Then K2.6 dropped:
→ 7x cheaper than Opus 4.7 → on par with Claude on SWE-Bench + Terminal-Bench → 12+ hour coding sessions → 4,000+ tool calls → open weights → Vercel saw 50%+ improvement on their internal Next.js benchmark
Most people are still arguing about closed models.
Meanwhile Kimi might become the infra layer for solo founders running entire engineering workflows.
This breakdown shows how to actually use it.
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