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Kimi K2 0905

Added Sep 25, 2025Open weights

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Kimi K2 0905. Kimi-k2 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundation model with exceptional coding and agent capabilities, featuring 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters. In benchmark evaluations covering general knowledge reasoning, programming, mathematics, and agent-related tasks, the K2 model outperforms other leading open-source models. Quantized at FP8.

  • Tools
  • Structured output
Input
Text
Output
Text
Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.40
Output
$1.80

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
262.1K
Max output
100.4K
Average output (7 days)
677 tokens
Longer than 60% of 465 models

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Kimi K2 0905MoonshotThis modelKimi LatestMoonshotRemove
ProviderMoonshotMoonshot
Discovery tierOpen weightsFrontier
AddedSep 25, 2025May 3, 2026
Limits
Context window262.14K1.05MBest
Max output100.35K—
Average output677 tokens—
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.40Best$2.00
Output$1.80Best$10.00
Cache read—$0.20
Cache write—$2.00
Performance
Throughput50.8 tok/s59.7 tok/sBest
Time to first token3.3 sBest5.6 s
Request success (24h)100.0%Best83.5%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index15.355.1Best
Math Index57.3—
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputYesYes
Video inputNoYes
Reasoning effort—low, high, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Kimi K2 0905
  • Kimi Latest

Intelligence Index

  • Kimi K2 090515.3
  • Kimi Latest55.1

Kimi K2 0905: Better than 39% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Kimi K2 0905: 57.3
    • Kimi Latest: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 73.3%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 46.0%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 1,678 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 1,846 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 31.4%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Kimi K2 0905: 53.0%
    • Kimi Latest: 86.3%Top

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Kimi K2 0905: 6.4%
    • Kimi Latest: 52.5%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Kimi K2 0905: 76.7%
    • Kimi Latest: —

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Kimi K2 0905: 81.9%
    • Kimi Latest: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Kimi K2 0905: 41.7%
    • Kimi Latest: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 67.2%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Kimi K2 0905: —
    • Kimi Latest: 60.8%

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Kimi K2 0905: 61.0%
    • Kimi Latest: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Kimi K2 0905: 57.3%
    • Kimi Latest: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Kimi K2 0905: 23.5%
    • Kimi Latest: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Kimi K2 0905: 73.4%
    • Kimi Latest: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Kimi K2 0905: 53.0%
    • Kimi Latest: 86.3%Top

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
50.8 tok/s
Faster than 38% of 250 models
Time to first token
3.3 s
Quicker than 52% of 250 models
Prompt cache hits
67.5%
Request success (24h)
100.0%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

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Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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