LLM Comparison

Nova Lite 1.0 vs Kimi K2.5

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026

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	N Nova Lite 1.0	K Kimi K2.5
Organization	Amazon	Moonshot AI
OpenTools Score
Family	Nova	Kimi
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	Dec 2024	Jan 2026
Context Window	300K tokens	262K tokens
Input Price	$0.06/M tokens	$0.38/M tokens
Output Price	$0.24/M tokens	$1.72/M tokens
Pricing Notes	—	Cache read: $0.1913/M tokens
Capabilities	textvisioncode	textvisioncode
Max Output	5K tokens	66K tokens
API Identifier	`amazon/nova-lite-v1`	`moonshotai/kimi-k2.5`
Benchmarks
MMLU	72	—
	View Nova Lite 1.0	View Kimi K2.5

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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
Nova Lite 1.0Cheapest	$0.06	$0.12	$0.18	—
Kimi K2.5	$0.38	$0.86	$1.24	+590%

Amazon

Nova Lite 1.0

Nova Lite 1.0 is a multimodal llm from Amazon. Supports up to 300,000 token context window. Achieves 72.0% on MMLU. Available from $0.06/M input tokens.

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is a multimodal llm from Moonshot AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.38/M input tokens.