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title: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai"
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description: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905: $0.600/M in, $2.50/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero."
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# MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai

> MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905: $0.600/M in, $2.50/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero.

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MODEL PROOF

# Kimi K2 0905

Moonshot AI · 04 Sept 2025

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **$1.08** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 262.14K
 Maximum output 98.3K
 Input modalities text
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.600 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $2.50 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from Novita: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.600 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

 1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller Novita novita/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 98,304 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.600 | Output $2.50 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 100.00% |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

#### Best rankings by task

 - Code categories #94 1102
- Websites #96 1114

Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 98K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-12-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Kimi K2 0905 is the September update of [Kimi K2 0711](moonshotai/kimi-k2). It is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Kimi K2 0905 cost?

$0.600/M in, $2.50/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Kimi K2 0905 have an independent quality score?

Kimi K2 0905 has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 What beats Kimi K2 0905?

Kimi K2 0905 has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Kimi K2 0905?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Does a missing score mean Kimi K2 0905 scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

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## Related

No independent quality score, so there is no dominator to name. Unrated is not a clean bill of health.

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