Model profile
Kimi

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking is a budget-priced text-first model from Kimi with partial runtime data, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / coding.

Best for: Long-context research / CodingN/A latencyLarge contextBudget pricing
Intelligence
33.5

Benchmark blend

Coding
0.853

Dev workflow signal

Context
262K Tokens

Large

Input Price
$0.60

Budget tier

Decision snapshot
64

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking currently reads as a budget text-first option with large context and a partially published runtime profile.

Overall profile
Selective fit
Best for
Long-context research / Coding
Latency tier
N/A
Price tier
Budget
Source coverage
OpenRouterArtificial Analysis

Decision Strip

Decision rail before the raw tables

Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.

Intelligence
33.5
34

General reasoning and benchmark headroom.

Limited
Speed
N/A
N/A

Latency data is partial.

Unavailable
Context
262K Tokens
88

How much prompt and task state can stay in view.

Above average
Price
$0.60
86

$2.50 output / 1M

Efficient

Editorial Profile

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking in one narrative

Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.

Selective fitCoding score 85Math score 95

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...

Identity

Kimi text-first profile

Positioning

Long-context research / Coding with large context and partially published runtime.

Cost posture

Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.

Strengths
  • Coding indicators point to a strong developer workflow fit.

  • Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.

Tradeoffs
  • Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.

  • Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.

  • Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.

Best fit
  • Code generation, refactors, test writing, and tool-assisted debugging.

  • Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.

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Benchmarks

Grouped by job-to-be-done

Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.

General intelligence

Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.

Intelligence Index
33.5
MMLU Pro
84.8%
GPQA
83.8%
HLE
23.8%
Coding

Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.

LiveCodeBench
0.853
SciCode
42.4%
Math

Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.

Math Index
94.7
AIME 2025
94.7%
Agent / tool use

Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.

IFBench
68.1%
TAU2
93.0%
TerminalBench Hard
31.1%
LCR
70.3%

Specs & Pricing

Technical snapshot and cost posture

Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.

Technical snapshot
Context Window
262K Tokens
Vision
Text-first
Modalities
text
Tokenizer
Other
Max Completion
100352
Moderation
No
Supported Parameters
frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Price architecture
Input
per 1M input tokens
$0.60
Output
per 1M output tokens
$2.50
Blended
AA 3:1 mix
$1.07

This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.

OR Cache Read
$0.00

Metadata

Raw source tables at the end

Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.