Moonshot AI (Kimi)

Kimi K2.5

The widely used Kimi K2.5 open-weight MoE with thinking, available first-party and across inference gateways.

ActiveAvailable from 18 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data.

Source: Moonshot AI pricing, Kimi models

Price per 1M tokens via DigitalOcean (OpenRouter)
$0.375 in / $2.03 out
Context window262,144
Max output32,768
Cache read$0.203 / M
ModalitiesText → Text
Priced across18 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$0.375 / M
Output$2.03 / M
Cache read$0.203 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$197
at current list prices
Fresh input$75.00
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$122
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
ModelrunLowest
$0.4$1.9$0.09—via OpenRouter
DigitalOcean
$0.375$2.03$0.203—via OpenRouter
Chutes
$0.44$2$0.22—via OpenRouter
DeepInfra
$0.45$2.25$0.07—via OpenRouter
SiliconFlow
$0.45$2.25$0.07—via OpenRouter
AtlasCloud
$0.49$2.5$0.2—via OpenRouter
StreamLake
$0.54$2.7$0.09—via OpenRouter
Together AI
$0.5$2.8——Direct
Novita
$0.57$2.85$0.095—via OpenRouter
AWS Bedrock
$0.6$3—✓Direct
Azure AI Foundry
$0.6$3——Direct
Fireworks AI
$0.6$3$0.1—Direct
Moonshot-ai
$0.6$3$0.1—via OpenRouter
Phala
$0.6$3$0.22—via OpenRouter
AWS Bedrock · Regional
from$0.6$3—✓Direct
Azure AI Foundry (Fireworks)
$0.66$3.3$0.11—Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Data zone
$0.66$3.3——Direct
Venice
$0.56$3.5$0.22—via OpenRouter

Regional deployments are priced per region; the lowest available region rate is shown.

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $0.375 / $2.03 per 1M since July 10, 2026.

More from Moonshot AI (Kimi)

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$0.72 / $3.5 in / out per 1M
Kimi K2.6
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$1.2 / $4.5 in / out per 1M
Kimi K2 Thinking
moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking
$0.6 / $2.5 in / out per 1M
Kimi K2
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$0.57 / $2.3 in / out per 1M

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