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Kimi K2.5

by Moonshot

Current budget open weights mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.600

per 1M tokens

Output

$3.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$1.20

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.100

17% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Moonshot pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

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Overview

Earlier Kimi model. $0.60/$3.00 per 1M; cached $0.10.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 2/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score62.9%
Perf per $/Mtok52.4
GPQA Diamond
87.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1
50.8%
LiveCodeBench
85%
MCP Atlas
64.4%
Humanity's Last Exam
30.1%
ARC-AGI 2
12%
AIME 2025
96.1%
HumanEval
76.8%
AIME 2026 *
95.8%
Independent composite scores
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -7.3 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1450.4 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #51 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #99 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 10 independent measurements
  • Ranks #84 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at AIME 2025 — 96.1%, #9 of 37

337.7 tokens/sec output 0.69s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Moonshot
Context window
262K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
open-weightsbudgetcachingmultimodal

Availability verified: listed on Moonshot's own page