Moonshot Kimi K2 Thinking
by Moonshot AIChat
Kimi reasoning model for long-horizon research, planning, and tool use
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 100,000 tokens
- Parameters
- 1.03T total, 32B active
- Released
- 2025-11-06
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- modified-mit
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking · also seen as novita/kimi-k2-thinking, moonshot.kimi-k2-thinking, moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo, vertex-openai/kimi-k2-thinking, +10 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-11-06
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- modified-mit
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 100,000
- Providers
- 17 + 14 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 146 ± 2 against price
- Direct price range
- $0.55–$2.50 in · $2.25–$3.44 out per 1M tokens · 15 of 17 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-09-02
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
- Parameters
- 1.03T total, 32B active
- Base model
- Kimi K2
- Developer country
- China
- Training compute
- 4.2×10²⁴ FLOP
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 caching
- Web search
- 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 $0.55 in / $2.25 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
Cost calculator
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