Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI chatreasoningtool_usevision Long

API ID: moonshotai/kimi-k2.5-0127

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Input Price
$0.45
/1M tokens
Output Price
$2.20
/1M tokens

About Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed visual and text tokens, it delivers strong performance in general reasoning, visual coding, and agentic tool-calling.

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Price Ranking
#984 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
262k
Max Output
262k
Release Date
2026-01-27
Capabilities
chat reasoning tool_use vision
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.86
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$26.55
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$36.52
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Kimi K2.5 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-k2.5-0127",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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