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Kimi K2 ThinkingOPEN
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Kimi K2 Thinking, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, Kimi K2 Thinking delivers 5 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Kimi K2 Thinking 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 hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Kimi K2 Thinking?
Kimi K2 Thinking 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. It scores 32.7 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Kimi K2 Thinking and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.6 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens.
What is Kimi K2 Thinking good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 83.8%, MMLU-Pro 84.8%, Humanity's Last Exam 22.3%, Long Context Reasoning 66.3%, LiveCodeBench 85.3%, SciCode 42.4%, AIME 2025 94.7%, IFBench 68.1%, τ²-Bench 93%, Terminal-Bench Hard 31.1%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.
Can I self-host Kimi K2 Thinking?
Yes. Kimi K2 Thinking 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.
Open-source alternatives
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