How much does Kimi K2 Thinking cost per million tokens?

Kimi K2 Thinking costs $0.6 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Kimi K2 Thinking?

Kimi K2 Thinking accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context and returns up to 235,929 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Kimi K2 Thinking?

About $1.85, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Kimi K2 Thinking?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy MoonshotAI API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and MoonshotAI sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

MoonshotAI · live price

Kimi K2 Thinking API pricing

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in...

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)Tool callingReasoning

Input: $0.6; per 1M tokens
Output: $2.50; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 262K; 236K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes MoonshotAI's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released November 6, 2025. Model id moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking.

What Kimi K2 Thinking costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.85

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$6.05

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$2.30

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Kimi K2 Thinking price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Kimi K2 Thinking price by host

2 hosts serve this model. Prices are the same or higher than list; the cheapest are first.

Google$0.6 in · $2.50 out · 262K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Novita$0.6 in · $2.50 out · 262K ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h

Where to buy MoonshotAI credits for less

Kimi K2 Thinking costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Kimi K2 Thinking cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.6 in / $2.50 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$55.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Kimi K2 Thinking

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M

Other MoonshotAI models

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Kimi K2 0905	$0.6	$2.50	$1.07	262K
Kimi K2.5	$0.45	$2.25	$0.9	262K
Kimi K2 0711	$0.57	$2.30	$1	131K
Kimi K2.6	$0.434	$1.83	$0.783	262K
Kimi K2.7 Code	$0.671	$3.35	$1.34	262K
Kimi K3	$0.684	$10	$3.01	1.0M

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