Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo on Vercel AI Gateway

Name: Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo on Vercel AI Gateway
Brand: Moonshot AI
SKU: kimi-k2-thinking-turbo-vercel-ai-gateway
Price: 1.15 USD

Kimi K2 · Moonshot AI

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Why use Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo on Vercel AI Gateway?

Vercel AI Gateway offers Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.15/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.

Input / 1M

$1.15

Output / 1M

$8.00

Cache

read $0.15

Batch

Not sourced

Setup recipe

Python + curl

Install

pip install openai

Auth

export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...

Call

import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],

Model ID

moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo

Request example

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Gotchas

Use provider model ID "moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo", not the LLMReference slug "kimi-k2-thinking-turbo".
creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.