Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot) Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-04-13
Free tier available2 plansGreat value score (8.5/10)
Self-hosted (Free)
$0
- ✓Modified MIT license -- commercial use allowed
- ✓Weights on Hugging Face
- ✓Fine-tuning permitted
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API (Moonshot / OpenRouter)
$0.60/per 1M input tokens
- ✓K2.5-Reasoning: $0.60 in / $3.00 out
- ✓256K context
- ✓Blended cost ~$1.07/M
Is Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot) Worth the Price?
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Value Score: 8.5/10
Overall Score: 8.1/10 · Agentic coding workflows, tool-use agents, and teams willing to pay hosted-API prices for frontier-tier quality with open-weights licensing protection.
Kimi K2.5 is the best open-weights model in the world right now for agentic coding. It legitimately rivals Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on practical coding tasks while being nominally 'open.' The catch is that the 1T parameter size makes it hosted-only for 99% of users. If you're picking between hosted APIs and you want maximum quality with open-weights safety, Kimi K2.5 is the S-tier pick. If you need a model that actually runs on your hardware, look at Qwen3-Coder-Next or DeepSeek V3.2 instead.
How Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot) Pricing Compares
| Tool | Free Tier | Starting Price | Value Score | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot)(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 8.5/10 | 8.1 |
| Qwen (Alibaba) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.8 |
| MiniMax M2 / M2.5 | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.4 |
| Gemma 4 (Google) | Yes | $0 | 10/10 | 8.3 |
| DeepSeek | Yes | $0 | 9.5/10 | 8.0 |
| GLM / Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | Yes | $0 | 9/10 | 8.0 |