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Kimi K2.8 Preview: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby Moonshot AIReleased Sep 14, 2026

Kimi K2.8 Preview is a text model by Moonshot AI. 2 providers serve it, from $3.91 to $4 /1M; the lowest price is at CrazyRouter.

Lowest price$3.91/1Mat CrazyRouter
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers2
Context1.05MMax output 1.05M

How Kimi K2.8 Preview compares

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

  • Pricey for its class: at $3.91 /1M, its lowest price is above 74% of comparable models (median $1.10).
  • Its 1.05M-token context window is larger than 83% of them (median 262K), about 1570 pages of text.
  • 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.

Kimi K2.8 Preview 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
CrazyRouter$0.942/1M$3.91/1M——
ZenMux$1/1M$4/1M$0.25/1M1.05M
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. CrazyRouter$3.91
  2. ZenMux$4
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Inputs
Image, Text, Video
Outputs
Text
Context
1.05M≈ 1570 pages of text
Max output
1.05M
Capabilities
Prompt caching, Reasoning, Vision
Released
Sep 14, 2026
License
—
Open weights
—
Monthly searches
5K

Alternatives to Kimi K2.8 Preview

Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.

ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
Kimi K2.8 Previewthis model$3.91/1M1.05M—2
Gemini 4 Argon$8/1M1.05M167326
GPT-6.1 Sol$8/1M1.05M174927
GPT-6 Sol$8/1M1.05M168228
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B$4.11/1M1M—22
Grok 4.7$4.80/1M500K163728
Gemini 3 Flash$2.40/1M1.05M14665
Mistral Large 4$2.09/1M1.05M154313
Muse Spark 1.3$4.25/1M1.05M165711

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