MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #60 of 556 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
Kimi K2 Thinking from MoonshotAI delivers strong reasoning and agentic performance with a 262K context window, high livecodebench scores, and solid tool use support at a mid-range price point.
Assessed May 14, 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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Performance Indices
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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 |
Live Performance
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