Kimi K2 Instruct

by Moonshot AIChat

Kimi model for long-context chat, coding, and agentic reasoning

Context
262K tokens
Max output
32,768 tokens
Parameters
1.03T total
Released
2024-09-05
Weights
Open
Licence
modified-mit

FeedWeights on Hugging Face

moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 · also seen as accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2-instruct-0905

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2024-09-05
Weights
Opennot gated
License
modified-mit
Input
Text
Output
Text
Context window
262,144 max across endpoints
Max output
32,768
Providers
5 + 2 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.39–$0.60 in · $1.90–$2.50 out per 1M tokens · across all 5 providers
More details
Last updated
2025-09-25
Knowledge cutoff
2024-08
Weights link
Hugging Face · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905
Parameters
1.03T total

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel toolsunknown
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt cachingunknown
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messagesunknown
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.39 in / $1.90 out per 1M tokens at IO.NET 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

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