Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Nov 5, 2026)

Kimi launches hosted agent service, Harness billed hourly in the cloud

KEY FACTS

Kimi released Hosted Agents, delivering its agent runtime framework Harness as a cloud service.
The service provides a 7x24 managed environment and supports long-horizon tasks and multi-agent collaboration.
The platform ships with 140+ Skills and 30+ plugins, covering retrieval, data queries, document processing and other tasks.
The first batch includes 8 financial agent templates, spanning investment research modeling, morning report generation, and position monitoring.
Sandboxes are billed at ¥0.072 per hour, with model inference and plugin calls charged on top.

KEY DATA

¥0.072/hourSandbox runtime unit price

140+Number of Skills

30+Number of plugins

8Number of financial agent templates

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

By turning its agent runtime framework into an hourly-billed cloud service, Kimi is taking the grunt work of environment setup off customers' hands, leaving enterprises to define tasks and connect tools. The ¥0.072/hour sandbox price is set very low; the real profit sits in model inference and plugin calls. The signal is clear: agent competition is shifting from model capability to managed infrastructure, and whoever lowers the barrier to enterprise deployment first gets first access to production scenarios.

Source: IT Home report