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DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus vs Kimi K2 Thinking
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 40 80.8 | 65 42.0 |
| Family | DeepSeek | Kimi |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Sep 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 164K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.21/M tokens | $0.60/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.79/M tokens | $2.50/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.1300/M tokens | Cache read: $0.1500/M tokens |
| Capabilities | textcode | textcodeextended-thinking |
| Max Output | — | 262K tokens |
| API Identifier | deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus | moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85deepseek | 84.6https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking |
| GPQA Diamond | 80.7deepseek | 83.8384artificial-analysis |
| AIME 2025 | 53.7deepseek | 94.6667artificial-analysis |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.9deepseek | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.4deepseek | — |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 31.8deepseek | — |
| HLE | 21.7deepseek | — |
| GPQA | — | 84.5https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking |
| View DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | View Kimi K2 Thinking | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusCheapest | $0.21 | $0.40 | $0.61 | — |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | $0.60 | $1.25 | $1.85 | +206% |
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is a large language model from DeepSeek. Supports up to 163,840 token context window. Achieves 87.1% on MMLU. Available from $0.21/M input tokens.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking is a large language model from Moonshot AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.60/M input tokens.
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