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Kimi K2 Thinking: price, performance and context
Open Kimi K2 Thinking by Moonshot AI costs $0.60 per 1M input and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 22 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 87 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 2 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.60
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.50
- Context window
- 262.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 235.9K tokens
- Performance index
- 22 points · rank 87 of 212
- Coding index
- n/a
- Agentic index
- n/a
- Cost at your usage
- $1.225 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Nov 06, 2025
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 7,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 8,700 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.003 | 3,100 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.006 | 1,700 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.065 | 150 |
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