Kimi K2

Kimi K2 is Moonshot AI’s flagship model with an Open Weights license, focused on agentic tasks, coding, and multi-step reasoning. The MoE architecture activates 32 billion of the total one trillion parameters per token; the context window spans 128,000 tokens. Available as a text-only variant locally or via cloud providers — cloud usage under Chinese jurisdiction requires a separate evaluation.

Moonshot AI Version k2-0711 Commercial use permitted MoE 1000 B (32 B active) 128 K Context 06/2025 $0.6 / $2.5 per 1M

  • Open Weights
  • Frontier
  • OR
  • Text
  • Agentic Orchestrator
  • Real-Time

Key metrics

Score · Latency · Cost · Quality

Total Score Silver
71.32
Routine
42.38
Reasoning
28.94

Rank #59

LLM Judge Avg
3.63
100 Coverage
Avg Task Duration
19.34
Real-Time
Token Rate
21.27
Output Rate
P95 Latency
51.75
Top 5 %
Total Tokens
47200
Output Volume
Cost per 1K
$0.0025
USD / 1K Requests
Benchmark Cost
$0.12
Total · 47200 tok

Benchmark modules

10 modules · weighted · vs. model median & top performer

Kimi K2 Best model Ø All models
Code Quality 73.56
CLI Benchmark 84.34
Logical Reasoning 74.15
UX Writing 70.07
Documentation 63.63
Content Transform. 71.25
Cultural Intelligence 70.8
Synthesis Quality 55
Tool Execution 86.67
ToolUse Score 70.71
Benchmark Cost $0.12

Token efficiency & latency

Consumption per module vs. model median

Token consumption per module

Performance profile