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Kimi K2 Thinking API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 9, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

Kimi K2 Thinking was released on November 6, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.400 per million input tokens and $1.75 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 262K tokens. API access is available through Moonshotai.

Context Window
262K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.400
Output$1.75
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output87 tok/s
TTFT0.60s
median latency
Capabilities
ReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Kimi K2 Thinking with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Context
Actions
$0.400
$1.750
262,144
Try
$0.300
$2.500
1,000,000
Try
$0.300
$1.500
128,000
Try
$0.300
$0.300
65,536
Try
$0.300
$0.400
8,192
Try
$0.350
$1.500
202,752
Try
$0.350
$1.550
131,072
Try
$0.350
$0.400
32,768
Try
$0.390
$1.900
262,144
Try
$0.400
$1.200
1,000,000
Try
$0.400
$1.500
202,752
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Kimi K2 Thinking is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

12
Providers
$0.400
Cheapest Input/M
$1.750
Cheapest Output/M
Chutes
Best Price

Provider Pricing

12 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
C
Chutes
Best Price
$0.400
$1.750
-
D
DeepInfra
$0.470
$2.000
100.0%
P
Parasail
$0.500
$2.500
-
S
SiliconFlow
$0.550
$2.500
-
A
AtlasCloud
$0.600
$2.500
-
N
Nebius
$0.600
$2.500
-
B
BaseTen
$0.600
$2.500
-
F
Fireworks
$0.600
$2.500
-
Google
Google
$0.600
$2.500
100.0%
N
Novita
$0.600
$2.500
-
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
$1.150
$8.000
98.9%
T
Together
$1.200
$4.000
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
40.3 (94th pct)
Coding
33.5 (89th pct)
Math
94.7 (95th pct)
MMLU Pro
84.8 (91th pct)
GPQA
83.8 (95th pct)
LiveCodeBench
85.3 (96th pct)
AIME
-
Aider
-
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

Kimi K2 Thinking costs $0.000400 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001750 per 1,000 output tokens.
Kimi K2 Thinking is available from 12 provider(s). Chutes offers the best price.
We compare Kimi K2 Thinking with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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