Kimi K2 Thinking
Context 256K tokens
Top 3 cheapest providers (Adjusted $/task)
The same list price can give a different adjusted $/task (caching, token efficiency) — click a price for its inputs.
Within the active global provider, residency and confidentiality filters.
| # | Provider | Price channel | Raw input $/1M | Raw output $/1M | Adjusted $/task |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novitavia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Novita's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking/providers), collected 2026-11-03. | via OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Novita's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking/providers), collected 2026-11-03. | $0.600 | $2.50 | |
| 2 | Google Vertex AIdirect — Direct price: Google Vertex AI's own price list (https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing), collected 2026-11-03. | direct — Direct price: Google Vertex AI's own price list (https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing), collected 2026-11-03. | $0.600 | $2.50 | |
| 3 | AWS Bedrockdirect — Direct price: AWS Bedrock's own price list (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/), collected 2026-11-03. | direct — Direct price: AWS Bedrock's own price list (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/), collected 2026-11-03. | $0.720 | $3.00 |
Composite
3 of 7 inputs · 2 from the model family6 radar axes: DesignArena's two boards share one24.3
AA Coding v4.x —Coding Agent v1.4 —AA Intelligence (est.) 11.4AA Agentic —Epoch ECI 145.9Software ECI 144.3DesignArena —/—
Radar: percentile among all models measured on each input; a gap means not measured.
Benchmark sheet
26 of 319 registered benchmark versions · bars show the percentile among all models measured on each benchmark.
1 of 26 values are Moonshot AI's own claims (†), not independent measurements; a matching independent result replaces a claim as soon as one exists.
- Epoch ECI · attached
- Software ECI · attached
Agentic
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA)7431.1%
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) pinned revision 74221fb → · Published board — Tests a pinned 44-task hard subset of terminal-based work using Terminus 2.
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run)4768.7%
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) published 2026-09-15 → · Published board — Multi-turn service agents making tool calls under strict policy constraints. (OpenRouter's own reproducible run, as published on openrouter.ai/benchmarks.)
Coding
SWE-bench Verifieddeveloper's claim63.4%† self-reported by the developer
SWE-bench Verified published 2026-09-10 → · mini-SWE-agent — A 500-instance human-filtered subset of SWE-bench created with OpenAI, served as the default Verified leaderboard view.
Efficiency
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task35$0.046
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task published 2026-09-15 → · Published board — Mean USD OpenRouter actually spent per task while running GPQA Diamond for this configuration.
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task52$0.045
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task published 2026-09-15 → · Published board — Mean USD OpenRouter actually spent per task while running τ²-Bench Airline for this configuration.
Instruction-following
IFBench (AA single-turn)8268.1%
IFBench (AA single-turn) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests precise single-turn instructions with deterministic rule checks.
Knowledge
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only)7423.8%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests expert-level knowledge on AA's text-only Humanity's Last Exam subset.
AA-Omniscience Index61-21.4
AA-Omniscience Index published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests factual reliability while rewarding correct answers and penalizing hallucinations.
UGI NatInt8354.4
UGI NatInt published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — A private-question evaluation of general knowledge and reasoning across textbook, popular-culture and world-model topics.
Long-context
AA-LCR v1.16972.0%
AA-LCR v1.1 v1.1 → · Published board — Tests reasoning across multiple long documents with corrected answer keys and grading.
Math
AIME 2025 (AA)9694.7%
AIME 2025 (AA) v2025 → · Published board — Advanced mathematical problem solving on AIME I and II 2025.
HMMT November 2025 (MathArena) 2025-115089.2%
HMMT November 2025 (MathArena) 2025-11 → · Published board — The 30 final-answer problems of the November 2025 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, one of the largest high-school math competitions in the United States, run by MathArena on the contest problems.
Apex 2025 (MathArena)00.0%
Apex 2025 (MathArena) v2025 → · Published board — Twelve final-answer problems from 2025 competitions that MathArena selected because strong models of the time failed them; the selection is biased against the four models used to choose it (Grok 4, GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GLM 4.5).
Apex Shortlist 2025 (MathArena)1747.3%
Apex Shortlist 2025 (MathArena) v2025 → · Published board — 47 final-answer problems from 2025 competitions on which at least one of two reference models (Grok 4 Fast, GPT-5 mini) got at least one of four attempts wrong, run by MathArena.
Reasoning
SimpleBench6539.6%
SimpleBench published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — A multiple-choice text benchmark of over 200 questions covering spatio-temporal reasoning, social intelligence, and linguistic adversarial robustness, on which a non-specialized human baseline outperforms every tested LLM.
SimpleBench6539.6%
SimpleBench published 2026-09-26 → · Published board — A multiple-choice text benchmark of over 200 questions covering spatio-temporal reasoning, social intelligence, and linguistic adversarial robustness, on which a non-specialized human baseline outperforms every tested LLM.
Science
CritPt (AA)702.6%
CritPt (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests research-level physics reasoning with Python, symbolic and numerical answers.
GPQA Diamond (AA)7483.8%
GPQA Diamond (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry knowledge on the Diamond subset.
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run)6183.4%
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) published 2026-09-15 → · Published board — Graduate-level science questions that resist retrieval and reward careful reasoning. (OpenRouter's own reproducible run, as published on openrouter.ai/benchmarks.)
Tool-use
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)8993.0%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests dual-control telecom agents that coordinate tool use with a simulated user.
Toolathlon, original release (HKUST NLP, archived board) pre-verified1817.6%
Toolathlon, original release (HKUST NLP, archived board) pre-verified → · Published board — An agent completes 108 real-world tool-use tasks across MCP servers and local toolkits, graded by executing the resulting state against each task's ground truth — the original task definitions, before the June 2026 Verified repair.
Uncensored
UGI Willingness81.80
UGI Willingness published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — A private-question evaluation of how far a model follows challenging instructions before refusing or deviating.
UGI8852.7
UGI published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — A private-question suite combining sensitive-topic knowledge with willingness to follow controversial instructions.
Writing
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3881,631 Elo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 v3 → · Published board — A LLM-judged creative writing benchmark with vocabulary and GPT-slop controls.
EQ-Bench Longform Creative Writing v1.119269.0
EQ-Bench Longform Creative Writing v1.11 → · Published board — LLM-judged benchmark in which models plan and write a short story/novella over 8x 1000-word turns, scored 0-100 across 14 rubric dimensions.
UGI Writing9059.3
UGI Writing published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — A maintainer-owned writing evaluation considering intelligence, style, repetition and length adherence, informed by human preferences.
Missing coverage · 293 benchmark versions
No result does not mean a zero, or that the model was never tested. Collection failures and disputed versions retain their distinct status.
Token offers by platform · 3 offers (Adjusted $/task)
Click any underlined price to see how it is estimated and where each input comes from. How we calculate adjusted cost.
3 offers within the active global filters; “price n/a” means the provider serves the model but publishes no direct token price we could collect — no other channel's price is shown in its place.
OpenRouter (1)
Prices via OpenRouter — what OpenRouter charges for each provider's endpoint, not the provider's own direct price. Source: openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking/providers, collected 2026-11-03.
| Novita | globalnovita/bf16 | $0.600 raw in $/1M | $2.50 raw out $/1M |
Google Vertex AI (1)
Direct prices from Google Vertex AI's own price list. Source: cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing, collected 2026-11-03.
| Google Vertex AI | global | $0.600 raw in $/1M | $2.50 raw out $/1M |
AWS Bedrock (1)
Direct prices from AWS Bedrock's own price list. Source: aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/, collected 2026-11-03.
| AWS Bedrock | eu-central-1EU | $0.720 raw in $/1M | $3.00 raw out $/1M |