Kimi K2 Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Kimi K2 Instruct is a text model by Moonshot AI. 10 providers serve it, from $1.68 to $2.30 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
How Kimi K2 Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.68 /1M against a median of $1.10; 60% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- 10 providers serve it; 77% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the modified-mit license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Kimi K2 Instruct 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.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | $0.40/1M | $1.68/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.54/1M | From$2.16/1M | — | — |
 Novita AI | $0.57/1M | $2.30/1M | — | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.57/1M | From$2.30/1M | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.57/1M | $2.30/1M | — | 131K |
 Helicone | $0.57/1M | From$2.30/1M | — | — |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.57/1M | $2.30/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.57/1M | From$2.30/1M | — | 131K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.57/1M | From$2.30/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.57/1M | From$2.30/1M | $0.57/1M | 131K |
- APIMart$1.68
- AIHubMixFrom$2.16
- Novita AI$2.30
- Vercel AI Gateway$2.30
- Jiekou.AI$2.30
- Hugging FaceFrom$2.30
- HeliconeFrom$2.30
- OpenRouterFrom$2.30
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$2.30
- RequestyFrom$2.30
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Moonshot AI
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 98K
- Capabilities
- Tool calling
- Released
- Jul 11, 2025
- License
- modified-mitcommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 1.03T
- Monthly searches
- 26K
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2 Instructthis model | $1.68/1M | 131K | — | 10 |
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Kimi K2 Instruct FAQ
The lowest price for Kimi K2 Instruct is $1.68 /1M, at APIMart.
APIMart, at $1.68 /1M. 10 providers serve Kimi K2 Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Kimi K2 Instruct reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 98K.
Yes. Kimi K2 Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the modified-mit license.
About 1.03T, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
10 API providers serve Kimi K2 Instruct. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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