Kimi just opened the door to Russia: China's AI now takes Mir cards

Kimi, the Chinese chatbot from Moonshot AI, has quietly opened its checkout to Russians. The subscription payment page now lists Mir, the Russian national card system, right next to Visa, Mastercard and JCB. On the evening of October 30 dozens of channels picked it up, and users have already tested it themselves.

It works like this: go to kimi.ai, pick a plan and enter a regular Russian Mir card. The bank sends an SMS code, the charge goes through in rubles and the subscription activates right away. One of the first buyers paid for the 39 dollar a month Pro plan with a T-Bank card and was charged 3,378 rubles, about 86.6 rubles per dollar against the central bank rate of roughly 80.7. That is around 7% on top, but with no middlemen, resellers or foreign cards.

Kimi's plans are Plus at 19 dollars a month (180 a year), Pro at 39, Max at 99 and Ultra at 199. All of them include Kimi Code, the coding agent, plus Deep Research, slides and the latest K3 models on a shared credit pool.

Moonshot AI has not announced anything officially, users simply noticed it. So if Mir doesn't show up at checkout or the payment fails, the door may close as quietly as it opened.

While American AI services keep banning Russian users in waves, the Chinese just started taking rubles. Vibe coders are already counting how much they will save on Claude.