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Kimi K2 Thinking vs Laguna S 2.1

Live dataset updated 9/9/2026, 8:46:14 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of Kimi K2 Thinking and Laguna S 2.1
Field
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Laguna S 2.1

Poolside

ModelCap position#42#40
Index score62.363.3
EvidenceMeasured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boardsEstimated5 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (67%); global-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (33%); shrunk 4.8 toward the measured corpus
Input / 1M$0.60$0.09
Output / 1M$2.50$0.18
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context262K1M
Providers21
Weight accessRestricted licenseRestricted license

Decision facts

  • Kimi K2 Thinking is #42; Laguna S 2.1 is #40 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 62.3 for Kimi K2 Thinking and 63.3 for Laguna S 2.1. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Evidence differs: Kimi K2 Thinking is Measured; Laguna S 2.1 is Estimated.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $2.50 for Kimi K2 Thinking and $0.18 for Laguna S 2.1. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $2.45 for Kimi K2 Thinking versus $0.27 for Laguna S 2.1. Laguna S 2.1 costs 89.0% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 262,144 tokens for Kimi K2 Thinking and 1,048,576 for Laguna S 2.1.
  • ModelCap currently lists 2 providers for Kimi K2 Thinking and 1 for Laguna S 2.1.

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