Kimi K2 Thinking API Pricing
Moonshot · Mid-tier · Modified MIT · released 2025-11. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Kimi K2 Thinking has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 27th cheapest of 108 Mid-tier models. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.60 per 1M tokens
- Output: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.15
- Context window: 262K
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Kimi K2 Thinking market position
On blended price ($1.93 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 75% of Mid-tier models: 27th cheapest of 108, tied with one other. Across every category it is cheaper than 40% of priced text models in the catalogue: 169th cheapest of 281, tied with one other.
Kimi K2 Thinking licence, size and capabilities
Kimi K2 Thinking is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Modified MIT, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.16 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $175 – $215 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $257 – $320 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $855 – $900 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $578 – $600 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $613 – $680 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $220 – $240 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $286 – $295 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $921 – $1.1K |
Kimi K2 Thinking pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: Google at $0.60 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens. All of them charge within 10% of one another.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Google (the price shown above) | $0.60 | $2.50 |
| Novita (the price shown above) — bf16 | $0.60 | $2.50 |
Kimi K2 Thinking price history
Kimi K2 Thinking has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.60 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Kimi K2 Thinking
- Next cheaper Mid-tier model: Seed 2.1 Turbo (ByteDance) at $1.90 blended, 2% less.
- Next more expensive: R1 (DeepSeek) at $1.96 blended, 2% more.
Common questions about Kimi K2 Thinking pricing
- How much does Kimi K2 Thinking cost?
- Kimi K2 Thinking costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Kimi K2 Thinking offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.15/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Kimi K2 Thinking cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Kimi K2 Thinking costs about $215 at list prices.
- Has the price of Kimi K2 Thinking changed?
- Kimi K2 Thinking has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.60 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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