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Kimi K2.5: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby Moonshot AIOpen weights · with termsReleased Jan 1, 2026

Kimi K2.5 is a text model by Moonshot AI. 27 providers serve it, from $0.555 to $3.70 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.

A newer version is out: Kimi K3 · released Jun 13, 2026

Lowest price$0.555/1Mat APIMart
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers27
Context262KMax output 236K

How Kimi K2.5 compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.555 /1M against a median of $1.10; 38% of comparable models cost less.
  • Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
  • On LMArena's Text board it ranks #10 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
  • 27 providers serve it; 94% of comparable models have fewer.
  • Its weights are open under the modified-mit license: commercial use under the maker's terms.

Kimi K2.5 prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
APIMart$0.411/1M$0.555/1M——
Helicone$1.20/1MFrom$1.20/1M$0.60/1M—
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.405/1MFrom$1.98/1M$0.225/1M—
Hugging Face$0.45/1MFrom$2.25/1M——
SiliconFlow$0.45/1M$2.25/1M$0.07/1M—
Requesty$0.45/1MFrom$2.25/1M$0.07/1M262K
FastRouter$0.45/1M$2.25/1M$0.07/1M262K
CometAPI$0.48/1M$2.40/1M$0.096/1M—
OpenRouter$0.50/1MFrom$2.50/1M$0.15/1M262K
Atlas Cloud$0.49/1M$2.50/1M$0.20/1M—
Novita AI$0.60/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M—
OpenCode$0.60/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M—
OrcaRouter$0.60/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M262K
Vercel AI Gateway$0.60/1M$3/1M—256K
AIHubMix$0.60/1M$3/1M$0.105/1M262K
Jiekou.AI$0.60/1M$3/1M$0.10/1M—
Amazon Bedrock$0.60/1MFrom$3/1M——
Prime Inference$0.60/1M$3/1M——
Cloudflare Workers AI$0.60/1M$3/1M——
Alibaba$0.574/1M$3.01/1M——
APIYI$0.60/1M$3.15/1M——
LaoZhang API$0.60/1M$3.15/1M——
CrazyRouter$0.60/1M$3.15/1M——
Azure$0.66/1MFrom$3.30/1M$0.10/1M—
Venice AI$0.56/1M$3.50/1M$0.22/1M—
Replicate$0.72/1M$3.60/1M——
AI/ML API$0.635/1M$3.70/1M$0.233/1M—
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. APIMart$0.555
  2. HeliconeFrom$1.20
  3. DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$1.98
  4. SiliconFlow$2.25
  5. FastRouter$2.25
  6. Hugging FaceFrom$2.25
  7. RequestyFrom$2.25
  8. CometAPI$2.40
  9. Atlas Cloud$2.50
  10. OpenRouterFrom$2.50
  11. Novita AI$3
  12. OpenCode$3
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
Moonshot AI
Inputs
Image, Text
Outputs
Text
Context
262K≈ 390 pages of text
Max output
236K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
Released
Jan 1, 2026
License
modified-mitcommercial use under the maker's terms
Open weights
Yes, downloadable
Parameters
1.03T
Arena score
1445Text
Monthly searches
22K
Get the weightsHugging FaceGitHub340K downloads in 30 days

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