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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking API Pricing
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking costs $0.600 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.150). Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.600
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
262K
Max output
100K
What would MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $14.80 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $49.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $109.50 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $29.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AIβs most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in...
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