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Kimi K2.5OPEN
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.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $1 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 15% of the 200 open-weight models tracked here
- 1 of 9 Moonshot AI models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Kimi K2.5, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
About this model
Kimi K2.5 is an open-weight AI model by Moonshot AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Kimi K2.5?
Kimi K2.5 is an AI language model from Moonshot AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free.
Is Kimi K2.5 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Kimi K2.5 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.5 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens.
What is Kimi K2.5 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 87.9%, Humanity's Last Exam 30.7%, Long Context Reasoning 78%, IFBench 70.2%, τ²-Bench 95.9%, τ-Bench Banking 14.2%, Terminal-Bench 45.7%, Terminal-Bench Hard 34.8%. It is particularly used for code generation.
Can I self-host Kimi K2.5?
Yes. Kimi K2.5 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.