Kimi K2.5
by Moonshot AI · moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 · #194 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...
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Pricing
Input
$0.57
per 1M tokens
Output
$2.85
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$1.14
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.095
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Kimi K2.5 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1.14 | $0.061 | — |
| 50% | $0.962 | $0.0372 | −39% |
| 90% | $0.819 | $0.0182 | −70% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00114 | $1.14 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00741 | $7.41 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0228 | $22.80 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0998 | $99.75 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
35.4
AA composite quality
Coding Index
46.8
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
21.7
Output speed
—
median
Time to first token
—
median
Time to first answer
—
after reasoning tokens
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,277 |
| Web apps | 1,181 |
| Full-stack | 1,173 |
| Mobile apps | 1,181 |
| Android native | 1,112 |
| UI components | 1,278 |
| Data viz | 1,262 |
| SVG | 1,193 |
| 3D | 1,264 |
| Game dev | 1,264 |
| Godot game dev | 1,211 |
| Code categories | 1,270 |
| ASCII art | 1,210 |
Specs
Context window
262K
tokens
Max output
262K
tokens
Input modalities
text, image
Tokenizer
Other