Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest is a multimodal model variant with a one-million-token context window, image and video input, tool use, and function calling. It is positioned for long documents, media analysis, research assistants, and operational workflows that require external actions alongside text generation.
The supplied record contains no model-specific benchmarks, so quality for reasoning, coding, instruction following, and autonomous execution cannot be confirmed. Its pricing is above the listed Flash alternative, making careful routing important if used at scale. It is a sensible pilot candidate for long-context and media-rich work, but teams should verify structured output quality, tool-call accuracy, latency, and editorial consistency before assigning client-facing responsibilities.
Assessed September 7, 2026
Editorial notes
Kimi Latest offers a million-token context, vision, video input, tools, and function calling for document-heavy workflows, but has no model-specific benchmark evidence or measured cost-performance record.
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DFO Verdict
Kimi Latest offers a million-token context, vision, video input, tools, and function calling for document-heavy workflows, but has no model-specific benchmark evidence or measured cost-performance record.
How MoonshotAI Kimi Latest compares
Its 1M-token context window is larger than 94% of the models we list. At $2.38 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 13% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.38 | $0.002375 |
| Output | $13.30 | $0.013300 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Frequently asked questions about MoonshotAI Kimi Latest
How much does MoonshotAI Kimi Latest cost?
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest costs $2.38 per million input tokens and $13.30 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of MoonshotAI Kimi Latest?
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
What can MoonshotAI Kimi Latest do?
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created MoonshotAI Kimi Latest?
MoonshotAI Kimi Latest is developed by ~moonshotai and was released on April 27, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: September 12, 2026 8:38 pm