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Kimi K2.5

KimiCurrent
byMoonshot AIMoonshot AI(ai lab)
Released January 27, 2026
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60
OpenTools Scorenormalized /100
57.0
Valuescore / $M
OpenTools Score
Context262.1K tokens
Price (In / Out)$0.38/M / $1.72/M
CategoryMultimodal LLM
Max Output65.5K tokens

About 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.

Capabilities

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Input Modalities

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Output Modalities

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Technical Details

API Identifier
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
Category
Multimodal LLM
Context Window
262,144 tokens
Max Output Tokens
65,535 tokens

Tags

multimodalbudget-friendlylong-context

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Kimi K2.5 across standard benchmarks.

GPQA Diamondhttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
87.6%
MMLU-Prohttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
87.1%
GPQA DiamondArtificial Analysis
87.8788%
Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis
45.6929%

Pricing

Token pricing for Kimi K2.5 API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.38/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$1.72/M

per million tokens

Pricing Calculator

Input cost$0.38
Output cost$0.86
Estimated monthly cost$1.24

Cache read: $0.1913/M tokens

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