Moonshot Kimi API

LLM 6.0/10

Kimi K2/K2.5: $0.15/M input (Nov-2025 pricing, 75% off) to $0.60/M, $2.50-3.00/M output, 256K context; K2.5 adds multimodal

Moonshot Kimi API scores 6/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Pay-as-you-go, ~$0.15-0.60/M input. Kimi K2/K2.5: $0.15/M input (Nov-2025 pricing, 75% off) to $0.60/M, $2.50-3.00/M output, 256K context; K2.5 adds multimodal.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan

Free value score

6.0 / 10

Show the math

Model Quality 3.5/10

value = 19 artificial_analysis_score

weighted score = 0.2 * 3.5/10

Access 10/10

value = 10/10

weighted score = 0.1 * 10/10

Price Efficiency 6.2/10

value = 3809524 tok/$

weighted score = 0.7 * 6.2/10

Key metrics

Kimi K2 Thinking 19 Best model

$0.2625/M Price

What you get

Paid — Pay-as-you-go, ~$0.15-0.60/M input. Kimi K2/K2.5: $0.15/M input (Nov-2025 pricing, 75% off) to $0.60/M, $2.50-3.00/M output, 256K context; K2.5 adds multimodal

~6.7M input tokens/$1 at $0.15/M; ~0.33-0.4M output/$1 — top open intelligence per dollar

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

"Here is the new pricing (effective November 6, 2025) compared to the old one (per 1 million tokens): $0.60 $0.15 (75% OFF) Input"
https://forum.moonshot.ai/t/an-update-on-new-k2-models-and-new-pricing/104
"Kimi K2 Thinking achieves a 67 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1986911675820446013

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Open service ← All LLM

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