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description: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5: $0.450/M in, $2.25/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5: $0.450/M in, $2.25/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI · released 2026-01-27

 $0.900 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## MiniMax M3 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+9.4** higher and costs **42% less** ($0.525/M against $0.900/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) is cheaper still (88% less) but drops no image input.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.450 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.25 /M |
| Cached input | $0.070 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 36 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 46.8 |
| Agentic | 21.7 |
| LMArena Elo | 1445.2 thinking |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - godotgamedev #9 of 43 1219
- asciiart #21 of 83 1198
- mobileapps #23 of 56 1198
- webapps #24 of 56 1173
- fullstack #25 of 59 1146
- androidnative #26 of 54 1146
- website #29 of 151 1269
- codecategories #32 of 145 1262

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...