Kimi K2 0711

Moonshot AI chattool_use

API ID: moonshotai/kimi-k2

Input Price
$0.50
/1M tokens
Output Price
$2.40
/1M tokens

About Kimi K2 0711

Kimi K2 Instruct is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion active per forward pass. It is optimized for agentic capabilities, including advanced tool use, reasoning, and code synthesis. Kimi K2 excels across a broad range of benchmarks, particularly in coding (LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench), reasoning (ZebraLogic, GPQA), and tool-use (Tau2, AceBench) tasks. It supports long-context inference up to 128K tokens and is designed with a novel training stack that includes the MuonClip optimizer for stable large-scale MoE training.

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Price Ranking
#1008 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
100k
Release Date
2025-07-11
Capabilities
chat tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.94
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$29.10
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Kimi K2 0711 API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/kimi-k2",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)