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Moonshot: Kimi K2 Thinking

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Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot’s open-weights AI model, released Nov 6, 2025. It costs $0.60/M input and $2.50/M output tokens, and handles a 262K-token context window.

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning.

Context
262K
Input
$0.60 / 1M
Output
$2.50 / 1M
Released
Nov 6, 2025
Modalities
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Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Kimi K2 Thinking lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

35.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
35th percentile of tracked models
47.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
47th percentile of tracked models
30.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
30th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

5 evals
GPQA Diamond84.2%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam22.3%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

MMLU-Pro84.8%

Broad expert knowledge

SimpleQA Verified31.6%

Factual accuracy & hallucination

WeirdML42.8%

Novel ML problem-solving

Coding

3 evals
LiveCodeBench85.3%

Contamination-free coding

SciCode42.4%

Scientific research coding

WebDev Arena1337

Human-rated web development

Math

3 evals
AIME 2024/202583.1%

Olympiad-qualifier math

FrontierMath21.4%

Research-level math problems

FrontierMath Tier 40.0%

Hardest research math

Agentic & Tools

4 evals
APEX4.0%

Multi-step agentic tasks

METR task horizon54 min

Autonomous task length

Terminal-Bench35.7%

Command-line agentic tasks

τ²-bench93.0%

Tool-agent-user reliability

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Frequently asked questions

What is Kimi K2 Thinking?

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning.

Who created Kimi K2 Thinking?

Kimi K2 Thinking is an AI model developed by Moonshot, part of the Kimi family, released Nov 6, 2025.

How much does Kimi K2 Thinking cost?

Kimi K2 Thinking is served from $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens (cheapest credible provider on OpenRouter: Novita).

What is Kimi K2 Thinking's context window?

Kimi K2 Thinking supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.

How does Kimi K2 Thinking perform on benchmarks?

On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Kimi K2 Thinking scores 85.3% on LiveCodeBench, 93.0% on τ²-bench, 84.8% on MMLU-Pro.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking open source?

Kimi K2 Thinking is released with open weights (Open weights (restricted use)), so the model can be downloaded and self-hosted.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Jul 30, 2026.