Moonshot AI·moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking is ModelCap current-board rank #48 with Index 65.1 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Kimi K2 Thinking listed OpenRouter input price is $0.60 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $2.50 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Kimi K2 Thinking has a published context limit of 262K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Kimi K2 Thinking has 2 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Kimi K2 Thinking weight access is restricted license, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
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Kimi K2 Thinking holds ModelCap Index position #48 of 248 ranked language models as of 22 September 2026, with an Index score of 65.1 (interval 60.1–70.1); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.
Kimi K2 Thinking is listed at $0.60 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026 across 2 providers. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $2.45 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.
Kimi K2 Thinking has a published context window of 262K tokens (262,144) and a maximum output of 98K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.
Restricted license (modified-mit). Downloadable weights use a model-specific or use-restricted license. Review the linked license before use, redistribution, or commercial deployment. The repository is moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking on Hugging Face.
2 providers serve Kimi K2 Thinking through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: Google and Novita. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Kimi K2 Thinking has published results on 4 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1487 (#89 of 397), SWE-bench 63.4% (#23 of 47), AA τ²-Bench Telecom 93.0% (#47 of 436) and AA Humanity's Last Exam 23.8% (#153 of 615). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.
Kimi K2 Thinking ranks #48 (Index 65.1) and Ling 3.0 Flash VL ranks #47 (Index 65.2) on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.
Kimi K2 Thinking first appeared in the catalogue on 6 Nov 2025. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.