MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #75 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.440 input and $2.00 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
Kimi K2.5 from MoonshotAI offers solid reasoning and vision support at a competitive price, with decent agentic capability and long-context reasoning. Coding performance is more limited, and Western business availability may be a consideration, but it represents good value for content and analytical tasks.
Assessed April 24, 2026
Rankings consider pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and real-world applicability and are refreshed as new models launch. Feedback?
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..
Capabilities
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Content
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
How does MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 stack up?
Compare side-by-side with other specialist models.
Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
|
| Provider | moonshotai |
| Release Date | January 27, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,535 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.44 | $0.000440 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics ā refreshed every 30 minutes.
