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Kimi K2 Thinking

by Moonshotai

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-

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Kimi K2 Thinking

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking`.

  • openrouter · moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking Docs

OpenRouter id: moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 22 index
  • Design Arena website (other): 1115 elo · #102

Notes

Kimi K2 Thinking is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Kimi K2 Thinking is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
2B ▼8%
Requests, last 7 days
112K
Tool calls, last 7 days
31.7K
Intelligence score
22
Average cost per request
$1.45
Price per million tokens
$0.6 in · $2.5 out
01B2B19 Sept: 272M tokens, 16.5K requests20 Sept: 195M tokens, 11.3K requests21 Sept: 190M tokens, 13.4K requests22 Sept: 400M tokens, 25.5K requests23 Sept: 1.5B tokens, 128K requests24 Sept: 546M tokens, 57.4K requests25 Sept: 360M tokens, 26.7K requests26 Sept: 177M tokens, 13.5K requests27 Sept: 242M tokens, 19.9K requests28 Sept: 352M tokens, 25K requests29 Sept: 326M tokens, 24.4K requests30 Sept: 297M tokens, 18.8K requests1 Oct: 323M tokens, 18.5K requests2 Oct: 352M tokens, 26.5K requests3 Oct: 424M tokens, 28.4K requests4 Oct: 322M tokens, 31.3K requests5 Oct: 322M tokens, 18.4K requests6 Oct: 272M tokens, 18.6K requests7 Oct: 231M tokens, 17.7K requests8 Oct: 296M tokens, 18.5K requests9 Oct: 534M tokens, 38K requests10 Oct: 154M tokens, 9.8K requests11 Oct: 401M tokens, 25.2K requests12 Oct: 300M tokens, 13.3K requests13 Oct: 230M tokens, 13.2K requests14 Oct: 240M tokens, 16.7K requests15 Oct: 314M tokens, 16K requests16 Oct: 501M tokens, 22.1K requests17 Oct: 292M tokens, 17.8K requests18 Oct: 155M tokens, 13.1K requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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