MODEL PROOF
Kimi K2 Thinking
NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED
No independent LMArena score is published for this model.
Serving precision differs between offers.
- Independent LMArena score
- Not independently rated
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 235.93K
- 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 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 (bf16), 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 | $0.150/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.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.600/M from Novita.
2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novitanovita/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $2.50 | bf16 | 99.69% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex Endpoint terms
| $0.600 | $2.50 | undeclared | 99.95% |
Independent scores
No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Websites #94 1120
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, 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 | 235K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Kimi K2 Thinking 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 Thinking have an independent quality score?
Kimi K2 Thinking has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.
What beats Kimi K2 Thinking?
Kimi K2 Thinking has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Kimi K2 Thinking?
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 Thinking scored zero?
Unrated is not a score of zero.
Is the cheapest Kimi K2 Thinking endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.600/M from Novita.
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