MoonshotAIReleased on Jul 11, 2025

Kimi K2 Base: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Kimi K2 Base is a language model from MoonshotAI, released in July 2025.

Kimi K2 base model is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. Trained on 15.5 trillion tokens with the MuonClip optimizer, this is the foundation

Kimi K2 Base API

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Kimi K2 Base examples

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

Kimi K2 Base license

Kimi K2 Base is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 1.0T parameters.

License
MIT
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
1.0T

MIT License - allows commercial use

FAQ

Common questions about Kimi K2 Base.

What is the Kimi K2 Base release date?

Kimi K2 Base was released on July 11, 2025 by MoonshotAI.

Who created Kimi K2 Base?

Kimi K2 Base was created by MoonshotAI.

How many parameters does Kimi K2 Base have?

Kimi K2 Base has 1000.0 billion parameters.

What is the license for Kimi K2 Base?

Kimi K2 Base is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source/open-weight license.