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Moonshot AI

Kimi K2

Released Jul 11, 2025 · knowledge cutoff 2025-04

Status
Superseded
Location
China
Modality
Text
Context window
131K
Max output
16K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$0.60 / $2.50
Cost per task
Open weights
Yes
Benchmarks6 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

81.1%

GPQA Diamond

75.1%

SWE-bench Verified

65.8%

AIME (latest)

49.5%

Humanity's Last Exam

4.7%

LMArena Elo

1385

Terminal-Bench 2.1

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Built to call tools rather than to chat — clean calls, sensible arguments, few loops
  • A distinct writing voice that avoids the flat assistant register
  • Answers immediately, with no reasoning wait

Weaknesses

  • No deliberation at all, so hard maths and multi-step logic fail outright
  • Large enough that self-hosting is a serious infrastructure commitment
For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Not researched

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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