Moonshot Kimi K2 Instruct
by Moonshot AIChat
Kimi model for long-context chat, coding, and agentic reasoning
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Parameters
- 1.03T total
- Released
- 2025-07-11
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- modified-mit
moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct · also seen as moonshot-kimi-k2-instruct, baseten/Kimi-K2-Instruct-FP4, deepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct, accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2-instruct
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-07-11
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- modified-mit
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 9 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.50–$2.00 in · $2.00–$3.00 out per 1M tokens · across all 9 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-10
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
- Parameters
- 1.03T total
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.50 in / $2.00 out per 1M tokens at Deep Infra on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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