MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.5 from MoonshotAI delivers solid reasoning and agentic performance with vision support and a large 262K context window at a competitive price, though its coding scores are moderate and UK business accessibility warrants a small consideration.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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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 visual and text tokens, it delivers strong performance in general reasoning, visual coding, and agentic tool-calling.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.45 | $0.000450 |
| Output | $2.20 | $0.002200 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
