Kimi K2.5: moonshot API pricing is $0.60 per million uncached input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens
Moonshot AI sets a new pricing benchmark with Kimi K2.5 at $0.60 per million input tokens.
Moonshot API pricing is $0.60 per million uncached input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens — verified by the OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker against Moonshot's published documentation.
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The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 (version kimi-k2.5): Moonshot API pricing is $0.60 per million uncached input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens.
Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI’s open-weight multimodal model for reasoning, coding, visual understanding and tool-using agents. Its published evaluations show improved coding and agent performance over Kimi K2 Thinking, but do not establish reliable autonomous operation without oversight.
What changed in this review:
- Context length is expressed as the vendor-documented 256K tokens.
- Vendor-published SWE-bench Verified performance is 76.8%; Terminal-Bench 2.0 performance is 50.8%.
- Added published reasoning, mathematics, coding and Humanity's Last Exam results with evaluation variants identified.
- SimpleQA Verified and Arena ratings are omitted because their current published values are not established.
- Added a reported Kimi K3-assisted Redis exploit case, explicitly distinguished from Kimi K2.5.
- Capability score 54 → 70
Teams building on Kimi K2.5 should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.
The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/kimi-k2-5.
References:
- https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
- https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5
- https://platform.moonshot.ai/docs/pricing/chat
Generated insight by OnAirToday AI
Moonshot AI is significantly lowering the financial barrier to entry for high-performance large language models in the Chinese market. This aggressive pricing strategy forces competitors to justify their cost-per-token models as Kimi K2.5 challenges industry incumbents.

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