Kimi K2 Thinking

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Pricing data updated:  Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output
Model Specs
ProviderMoonshotAI
Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens		$0.6
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$2.5
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$1.85
Context Window262.14K
Release Date2025-11-06
Popularity RankUnranked
Daily DemandN/A

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Unit prices $0.6 input / $2.5 output Per 1M tokens

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Model Introduction

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in...

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Kimi K2 Thinking is best suited for general API evaluation.

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A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $1.85.

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