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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

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

Kimi K2 Thinking is the latest, most capable version of open-source thinking model. Starting with Kimi K2, it is built as a thinking agent that reasons step-by-step while dynamically invoking tools. It sets a new state-of-the-art on

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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

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

Performance by conversation depth

How Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 Performance Across Datasets

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

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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 pricing

Providers

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 starts at $0.470 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens via DeepInfra. See all 3 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.470$2.00262.1K/262.1K
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Novita logoNovita
$0.480$2.00262.1K/262.1K
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Fireworks logoFireworks
$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.

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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 model size

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 has 1 trillion parameters and was trained on 15.5 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

ParametersTraining tokens
1TMoE
15.5Ttokens
16× tokens-to-params ratio
Frontier (200B+)
1T
1B7B70B405B

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 context window

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

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262Ktokens
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Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 API

Available from the model provider

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 latency

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

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 examples

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

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 license

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 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

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 resources

Official sources for Kimi K2-Thinking-0905: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post, source repository, model weights.

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 are Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, Grok-3. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

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

 

Claude Opus 4.6

Score pending
 

Gemini 3 Pro

Score pending
 

Grok-3

Score pending
 

Grok-4 Heavy

Score pending
 

GPT-5.2

Score pending
 

Gemma 4 31B

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Kimi K2-Thinking-0905.

When was Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 released?

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

How much does Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 cost?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 pricing starts at $0.47 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens via DeepInfra, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 available via API?

Yes, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 3 providers tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Kimi K2-Thinking-0905?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 has 1000 billion parameters. It was trained on 15.5 trillion tokens. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Kimi K2-Thinking-0905?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 was created by MoonshotAI.

What is the license for Kimi K2-Thinking-0905?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Where can I use Kimi K2-Thinking-0905?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is available through 3 providers including DeepInfra, Novita, Fireworks.

Where is the Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 paper or technical report?

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 has a paper or technical report available at https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2/blob/main/tech_report.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 against?

Common Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 comparisons include Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 vs Claude Opus 4.6, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 vs Gemini 3 Pro, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 vs Grok-3. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.