Moonshot AI · Released Jan 27, 2026

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...

ReasoningOpen weightsVision
  • Top 20%Fiction.LiveBench
Released
Jan 27 2026
Context window
262K 236K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.50 from $0.49
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50

Where to run it

5 providers compared

Cheapest: AtlasCloud at $0.49 / $2.50 per 1M input / output tokens — 19% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
AtlasCloudINT4 $0.49 $2.50 $0.20262K236K99%24h Cheapest
SiliconFlowINT4 $0.50 $2.50 $0.15262K236K100%24h +1%
Novita $0.57 $2.85 $0.095262K236K99%24h +15%
Amazon Bedrockus-east-2 $0.60 $3.00 —262K131K100%24h +21%
Venice $0.53 $3.33 $0.21256K66K99.9%24h +24%

Value

Price vs. performance

1 model scores higher for the same price or lesson SWE-bench Verified, e.g. Gemini 3 Flash Preview.

Kimi K2.5 Other Moonshot AI Other labs Value frontier · SWE-bench Verified vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.

Benchmarks

13 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedSoftware engineering · Real GitHub issues fixed in Python repos 73.8% #16of 26 Claude Opus 4.783.5%
Terminal-BenchSoftware engineering · Tasks completed with the programs in a real terminal (best agent) 43.2% #21of 40 GPT-5.584.7%
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 49.0% #52of 93 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
OSWorldAgents & computer use · Desktop and web tasks with keyboard and mouse 63.3% #3of 4 Claude Sonnet 4.672.1%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $1,198 #46of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
Fiction.LiveBenchWriting & content · Understanding long creative writing (16k tokens) 86.1% #3of 15 GPT-597.2%
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 34.3% #48of 66 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1436 #57of 88 Claude Opus 5.51820
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning & knowledge · Expert questions across 100+ subjects 24.4% #15of 23 GPT-6 Astra54.8%
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 11.8% #49of 63 GPT-6 Astra95.0%
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 65.3% #48of 63 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
SimpleBenchReasoning & knowledge · Common-sense trick questions about space, time and people 46.8% #34of 43 Claude Fable 581.9%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 3.1% #63of 96 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%

Specs

Details

Model ID
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
Developer
Moonshot AI
Release date
Jan 27, 2026 ·
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
235,929 tokens
API price
$0.50 / $2.50 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
5
Input types
text, image
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Free tier
No

Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.