Kimi K2 Thinking pricing & price history
Kimi K2 Thinking by Moonshot AI costs $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K token context window.
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No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check hourly.
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About Kimi K2 Thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s 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...
FAQ
How much does Kimi K2 Thinking cost?
Kimi K2 Thinking by Moonshot AI costs $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0024.
What is the context window of Kimi K2 Thinking?
Kimi K2 Thinking supports up to 262,144 tokens of context and up to 98,304 output tokens per request.
Has Kimi K2 Thinking’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Kimi K2 Thinking as of 2026-09-24.
What are cheaper alternatives to Kimi K2 Thinking?
Cheaper options include Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ($0.08/$0.20), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 ($0.04/$0.32), Ministral 3 8B 2512 ($0.15/$0.15), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).