What the evidence says
- Developer
- Moonshot AI
- Released
- November 6, 2025
- Domains
- Language
- Tasks
- Language modeling/generation · Question answering · Search · Quantitative reasoning · Code generation
- Access
- Open weights (restricted use)
- Weights
- Open weights
Benchmark results
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub scores for this reviewed identity. Rows with a scaffold are system results, not bare-model results. Fraction-unit scores shown as percentages.
- Terminal-Bench
- 35.7% · Terminus 2
Platform facts
OpenRouter's platform listing, retrieved July 22, 2026. Routed platform prices, not first-party provider prices.
- Input price
- $0.60 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Context length
- 262,144 tokens
- Listed on OpenRouter
- November 6, 2025
Common questions
What is Kimi K2 Thinking?
Kimi K2 Thinking is a Moonshot AI model released November 6, 2025, according to Epoch AI's reviewed catalog record. The record classifies it under language.
How does Kimi K2 Thinking rank on LMArena?
No board Model Gauntlet mirrors currently lists this exact model revision under a reviewed identity, so no rating is reported here.
What does Kimi K2 Thinking cost?
OpenRouter lists it at $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, retrieved July 22, 2026. Those are the platform's routed prices, not first-party provider prices.