Kimi K2.5
- Family
- Kimi
- Released
- 2026-03-15
- Context
- 256K
- Parameters
- 1T (MoE, 384 experts)
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- code
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 7 routes · OpenRouter
About
Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's Kimi model focused on code generation and software engineering. It offers a 256K-token context window and scores 87.9 on GPQA.
Providers(7)
Compare all 7Compare API pricing across 7 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.440 | $2.00 | - | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.600 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.600 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Novita AI | $0.600 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.600 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.600 | $3.00 | read $0.100 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | Contact sales | Contact sales | - | Serverless Scheduled retirement: January 26, 2027 |
Deprecated provider routes(3)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Deprecated | @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 |
| Together AI | DeprecatedRetired May 21, 2026 | — |
| NVIDIA NIM | Deprecated | moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 |
Available via routers & gateways(8)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(17)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87.9 | diamondObserved 2026-04-18 | — | ||
| 87.1 | Thinking mode (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 47.1 | v4Observed 2026-04-19 | — | ||
| 74.2 | τ-benchObserved 2026-04-24 | — | ||
| 61.4 | MultiChallengeObserved 2026-04-26 | — | ||
| 78.5 | LLM-Stats aggregatorObserved 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 58.5 | pass@1 (best of 5 runs)Observed 2026-05-28 | — | ||
| 96.1 | Thinking mode (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 64.5 | BFCL v3 (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 60.6 | BrowseComp (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 50.2 | HLE-Full with tools (agentic) (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 85.0 | LiveCodeBench v6 (pass@1)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 98.0 | Thinking mode (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 29.5 | MCP-Atlas (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 76.8 | From official GitHub model card (resolved)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 50.8 | Terminal-Bench 2.0 (accuracy%)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | ||
| 31.9 | CursorBench 3.1Observed 2026-06-30 | Configuration: Kimi 2.5 (single reported configuration) Harness: CursorBench 3.1 Evaluator: Cursor Confidence: confirmed Notes: Cursor published one CursorBench 3.1 configuration for this model; no cross-effort selection was needed. |
Migration checks
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Rankings & picks(2)
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Cheapest of 7 routes · OpenRouter