MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #49 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.600 input and $2.50 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, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
MoonshotAI's Kimi K2 Thinking delivers excellent reasoning, strong agentic performance, and impressive maths and coding benchmarks at a very reasonable price point. With tool use, function calling, and a 262K context window, it is a compelling option for businesses needing deep reasoning and agent-based workflows, though Western enterprise support is more limited than top-tier providers.
Assessed April 23, 2026
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Performance Profile
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AIās most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
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| Provider | moonshotai |
| Release Date | November 6, 2025 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
| Output | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
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