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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 Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-09
Kimi K2.5 is available on 2 hosts. See the full cheapest-first comparison on the consolidated Kimi K2.5 page →

Overview

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

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Capabilities

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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 Intelligence Index: 36 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 21.7 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: -7.3 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1450.7 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #44 of 67 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #78 of 150 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 12 independent measurements
  • Ranks #63 of 150 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at AIME 2025 — 96.1%, #9 of 36

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

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated Aug 9, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Moonshot
Context window
262K tokens
Modality
text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Jul 1, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
open-weightsbudgetcachingmultimodal

Availability verified: Not re-verified. We have no recent evidence that Moonshot still lists this model — treat availability as unconfirmed.