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Kimi K2 Thinking

KimiCurrent
byMoonshot AIMoonshot AI(ai lab)
Released November 6, 2025
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73
OpenTools Scorenormalized /100
47.0
Valuescore / $M
OpenTools Score
Context262.1K tokens
Price (In / Out)$0.60/M / $2.50/M
CategoryLarge Language Model
Max Output262.1K tokens

About 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.

Capabilities

textcodeextended thinking

Input Modalities

text

Output Modalities

text

Technical Details

API Identifier
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
Category
Large Language Model
Context Window
262,144 tokens
Max Output Tokens
262,144 tokens

Tags

reasoningbudget-friendlylong-contextchain-of-thought

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Kimi K2 Thinking across standard benchmarks.

GPQAhttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
84.5%
MMLU-Prohttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
84.6%
GPQA DiamondArtificial Analysis
83.8384%
AIME 2025Artificial Analysis
94.6667%

Pricing

Token pricing for Kimi K2 Thinking API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.60/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$2.50/M

per million tokens

Pricing Calculator

Input cost$0.60
Output cost$1.25
Estimated monthly cost$1.85

Cache read: $0.1500/M tokens

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