Model
Kimi K2 Thinking
Thinking Kimi model for slower research passes, planning, and hard technical questions
Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)
16 of 18 providers publish a price for Kimi K2 Thinking. The cheapest full-context option is Helicone at $0.48/$2 per M. Vercel AI Gateway lists lower but caps context at 216K.
Best price history
Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.
- Best input /M
- $0.47unchanged
- Best output /M
- $2unchanged
- Provider coverage
- 18
- 19 at the start · 24 snapshots
Published best prices are unchanged.
24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.
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Recent changes
Changelog →- contextvia openrouter · Sep 13, 2026
- output: 100K → 98K tokens
- contextvia kilo · Sep 13, 2026
- output: 100K → 98K tokens
- capabilityvia amazon-bedrock · Sep 13, 2026
- description: Kimi reasoning model for long-horizon research, planning, and tool use → Thinking Kimi model for slower research passes, planning, and hard technical questions
- knowledge: — → 2024-08
- release_date: 2025-12-02 → 2025-11-06
- repricedvia hyper · Sep 11, 2026
- cache_read: — → $0.3
- cache_write: $0.3 → —
- contextvia kilo · Sep 10, 2026
- output: 236K → 100K tokens
- repricedvia openrouter · Sep 10, 2026
- output: 236K → 100K tokens
- cache_read: — → $0.15
In the news
All news →- America Must Protect Its Training Data
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Benchmarks
- SWE-Bench Verified ↗(resolved)report ↗Unclassified source71.3
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Weights
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