MoonshotAIReleased on Jul 11, 2025

Kimi K2 Instruct: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

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

Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. Trained with the MuonClip optimizer, it achieves exceptional performance across frontier knowledge,

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Kimi K2 Instruct pricing

Providers

Kimi K2 Instruct starts at $0.500 per million input tokens and $0.500 per million output tokens via Fireworks. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency sThroughputQuantInputOutput
Fireworks logoFireworks
$0.500$0.500200.0K200.0K
Novita logoNovita
$0.570$2.30131.1K131.1K
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45 c/s
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Kimi K2 Instruct API

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Kimi K2 Instruct examples

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

Kimi K2 Instruct license

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

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MIT
Commercial use allowed
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1.0T

MIT License - allows commercial use

FAQ

Common questions about Kimi K2 Instruct.

What is the Kimi K2 Instruct release date?

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

Who created Kimi K2 Instruct?

Kimi K2 Instruct was created by MoonshotAI.

How many parameters does Kimi K2 Instruct have?

Kimi K2 Instruct has 1000.0 billion parameters.

What is the license for Kimi K2 Instruct?

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