Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking
Released Nov 6, 2025 · 158B tokens this week · 4 providers
Overview
A reasoning variant of Kimi K2 that interleaves thinking with hundreds of sequential tool calls. Aimed at deep research and long autonomous sessions rather than snappy chat. Holds up remarkably well across very long trajectories.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Novita AICheapest | 262K | 66K | $0.60 | $2.50 | 880ms | 58 | 98.50% | fp8 |
DeepInfra | 262K | 66K | $0.63 | $2.63 | 840ms | 64 | 98.60% | fp8 |
Together AI | 262K | 66K | $0.66 | $2.75 | 195ms | 78 | 99.30% | Full |
Fireworks AI | 262K | 66K | $0.70 | $2.90 | 740ms | 88 | 99.45% | Full |
Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.
Price comparison
Blended $ per 1M tokens
Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go
curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'