Broaden, Deepen, and Diversify Your Research with Kimi

The depth of a research team, the speed of AI. Describe your topic, upload your files, and let Kimi Deep Research take it from there. Searching across the open web and professional databases to produce thorough, cited reports with multi-format outputs tailored to how you work.

Start with your intent, then build a structured research plan

Drop a research topic and optionally upload your files. Kimi Deep Research will analyze your input, ask clarifying questions to confirm the scope, and map out a research plan before any searching begins. Stay in your area with the AI research agent that actually knows you.

Kimi, as a Deep Research AI, understands, clarifies, and schedules the research tasks smartly.

Search at scale with high-quality, database-supported results

For every research task, Kimi Deep Research executes dozens of targeted searches across the open web and professional databases. It combines information from news outlets, government sources, academic publications, corporate databases, and real-time financial and economic data to build a more complete picture.

As a Deep Research AI tool, Kimi Deep Research searches at scale for high-quality results from authoritative sources.

Charts, citations, and every format you need

Every report is tailored to the research topic, with embedded charts where relevant and dozens of cited, traceable sources drawn from your uploaded materials and web research. If you need something beyond a written report, just ask: Kimi Deep Research supports interactive HTML reports, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs, each tailored to your workflow.

Kimi Deep Research can generate reports of rich tables and long content, and multi-format output: PPT, Excel, Word, and interactive HTML.

Research that gets sharper with every follow-up

Kimi Deep Research supports multi-turn conversations within the same session. Just ask follow-up questions, request a deeper dive into a specific finding, or shift the research angle entirely, and Kimi retrieves additional sources and refines its analysis each round, building on what it already knows rather than starting from scratch.

The Deep Research AI Agent allows further research iteration in the same session, just requiring follow-up prompts.

Built for the work that demands real research

Finance & Investment

Generate structured investment research and company analyses grounded in authoritative financial sources and professional databases. Every claim is cited and traceable.

The Deep Research AI can generate professional business and investment reports with data fetched from databases.

Academic research

Search for, retrieve, and study relevant academic papers to produce structured synthesis or literature reviews that map where studies align, where they conflict, and what gaps remain unaddressed.

The Deep Research AI agent empowers academic research with high-quality research results and synthesizing ability.

Market research

Gather and synthesize market data from industry reports, consumer reviews, news sources, and public databases to produce competitive landscape analyses and industry trend reports. Understand where the market is heading and where opportunities lie.

The Deep Research AI gathers and synthesises market data for structured market reports, helping with market strategy-making.

Consulting & Business analysis

Compile client-ready analyses on target markets, competitive landscapes, and industry dynamics. Kimi draws on professional databases and authoritative sources to deliver structured, cited reports built for boardrooms and client presentations.

The Deep Research AI helps generate client-ready analyses on target markets, competitive landscapes and industry dynamics.

How to use Kimi Deep Research

1

Input your research theme and refine the scope

Open Kimi Deep Research, input the topic, and optionally upload background materials. Kimi returns clarifying questions to define the research direction. Confirm, narrow, or expand the focus as needed for execution.

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Let Kimi think, search, and synthesize

Next, Kimi runs autonomously, displaying search queries, reasoning steps, and fetched URLs in real time. Once complete, you'll receive outputs as you requested.

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Further iterate your research as needed

Once the report is ready, ask follow-up questions, request deeper analysis, or shift the angle for a new audience or format. Kimi Deep Research carries forward the context, sources, and findings from the first report to extend the research with continuity.

FAQ

A Deep Research AI tool is an autonomous research agent that searches the web, reads multiple sources, reasons across findings, and synthesizes a structured, cited report, all without manual prompting. Instead of solely generating answers from training data, Deep Research tools actively browse, retrieve, and analyze live information to produce in-depth reports on complex topics.
Kimi Deep Research is available on the free plan with a limited monthly allowance. For more complex or multi-turn research tasks, additional credits can be unlocked by upgrading your plan.
Kimi doesn't cap Deep Research by query count; the usage is measured by token consumption. The free plan includes enough token allowance to try Deep Research, but for complex, lengthy, or multi-turn research tasks, upgrading to a paid plan gives you the headroom you need.
Select Kimi Deep Research mode, enter your research question, and optionally upload reference materials. Kimi helps define the scope through clarifying questions, then autonomously searches the web and professional databases, analyzes sources, and generates a cited report. You can continue the conversation to explore new angles, deepen the analysis, or generate outputs such as PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Excel files, Word documents, and interactive HTML reports.
Kimi Deep Research supports a range of output formats, including Markdown reports, PDFs, PowerPoint decks, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and interactive HTML reports. You can specify your preferred format in your initial prompt, or request additional outputs as the conversation progresses.
Kimi Deep Research completion time varies with question complexity and the number of required sources. You can monitor progress in real time through active search queries displayed.
Yes. Kimi Deep Research can run in the background, so you can continue using other Kimi features, such as Kimi Slides, Kimi Docs, or Kimi Build, while it runs.
A Deep Research agent breaks your question into sub-tasks, then executes them autonomously: searching the web, reading and evaluating sources, reasoning across findings, and iterating until it has enough to write a comprehensive report. For example, Kimi Deep Research agent specifically works in three stages: Clarification, autonomous execution, and generating rich, deep, and multi-format research deliverables.
Several AI platforms now offer Deep Research capabilities on their free plans, though the quality and depth of results vary significantly. Key things to look for: whether the tool searches beyond the open web, how it handles source citation, and whether it supports multi-turn refinement. Kimi Deep Research is free to get started with, and covers professional databases in addition to the open web, with full citation and multi-format output support. Upgrading to a paid plan unlocks greater capacity and additional features for more demanding research tasks.

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