MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #73 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.400 input and $1.90 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 delivers strong reasoning, vision support, a 262K context window, and solid agentic performance at competitive pricing; the -4 regional penalty applies for limited enterprise availability.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
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| Provider | moonshotai |
| Release Date | January 27, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.40 | $0.000400 |
| Output | $1.90 | $0.001900 |
Live Performance
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