--- title: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/moonshotai__kimi-k2-thinking/ description: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking: $0.600/M in, $2.50/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero." --- # MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai > MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking: $0.600/M in, $2.50/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero. [Check base rates for this workload](/check/moonshotai__kimi-k2-thinking/) [Cheaper alternatives](/alternatives/) [Family](/families/kimi/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=moonshotai%2Fkimi-k2-thinking) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI · 06 Nov 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 Serving precision differs between offers. 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 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](#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 (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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Novita novita/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.150 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 98,304 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.600 | Output $2.50 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.69% | | Seller Google google-vertex Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.600 | Output $2.50 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 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](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 | 235K | | Input modes | text | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | always on | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking. Balanced workload. Not independently rated. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. 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