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Kimi K2 0905: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Kimi K2 0905 is a language model from MoonshotAI, released in September 2025.

Kimi K2 0905 is the September update of Kimi K2 0711. It is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion active per forward pass. It supports

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Kimi K2 0905 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Kimi K2 0905 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Kimi K2 0905 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Kimi K2 0905 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Kimi K2 0905 pricing

Providers

Kimi K2 0905 starts at $0.600 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Novita.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
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$0.600—$2.50262.1K/262.1K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Kimi K2 0905 context window

Input and output token limits for Kimi K2 0905, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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Kimi K2 0905 latency

Kimi K2 0905 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Kimi K2 0905 examples

Recent arena outputs from Kimi K2 0905, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Kimi K2 0905 license

Kimi K2 0905 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 1.0T parameters.

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Kimi K2 0905 resources

Official sources for Kimi K2 0905: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Kimi K2 0905 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Kimi K2 0905 are LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, LongCat-Flash-Chat. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Kimi K2 0905

Models ranked just above and below Kimi K2 0905 by LLM Stats score.

 

LongCat-Flash-Thinking

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Score pending
 

LongCat-Flash-Chat

Score pending
 

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Score pending
 

Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking

Score pending
 

Qwen3.5-9B

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Kimi K2 0905.

When was Kimi K2 0905 released?

Kimi K2 0905 was released on September 5, 2025 by MoonshotAI. This is the official Kimi K2 0905 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Kimi K2 0905 cost?

Kimi K2 0905 pricing starts at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens via Novita, the lowest price among tracked providers.

How big is Kimi K2 0905?

Kimi K2 0905 has 1000 billion parameters.

Who created Kimi K2 0905?

Kimi K2 0905 was created by MoonshotAI.

What is the license for Kimi K2 0905?

Kimi K2 0905 is released under the Proprietary license.

Where can I use Kimi K2 0905?

Kimi K2 0905 is available through 1 provider including Novita.

Where is the Kimi K2 0905 paper or technical report?

Kimi K2 0905 has a paper or technical report available at https://moonshot.cn/blog/kimi-k2-0905. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Kimi K2 0905 against?

Common Kimi K2 0905 comparisons include Kimi K2 0905 vs LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Kimi K2 0905 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Kimi K2 0905 vs LongCat-Flash-Chat. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.