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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905

Kimi K2 0905 is the September update of Kimi K2 0711. It is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion active per forward pass. It supports long-context inference up to 256k tokens, extended from the previous 128k.

This update improves agentic coding with higher accuracy and better generalization across scaffolds, and enhances frontend coding with more aesthetic and functional outputs for web, 3D, and related tasks. Kimi K2 is optimized for agentic capabilities, including advanced tool use, reasoning, and code synthesis. It excels across coding (LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench), reasoning (ZebraLogic, GPQA), and tool-use (Tau2, AceBench) benchmarks. The model is trained with a novel stack incorporating the MuonClip optimizer for stable large-scale MoE training.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.60 / $2.50per 1M
Context
262K
Released
Sep 4, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2024

Providers

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Pricing

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Input
$0.5999/M tokens
Output
$2.498/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput
38tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.75s

P50, best provider

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.99%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.99%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.99%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0905 (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 GPQA Diamond76.7%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 HLE6.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 IFBench41.7%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 τ²-Bench Telecom73.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 AA-LCR53.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 LiveCodeBench61.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 Terminal-Bench Hard23.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 MMLU-Pro81.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2 0905 AIME 202557.3%
Design ArenaKimi K2 0905 Preview Models Arena Code Categories Elo1087
Design ArenaKimi K2 0905 Preview Models Arena Website Elo1099

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

1.
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OpenHands
348Mtokens
2.
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Dify.AI
136Mtokens
3.
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T3.Chat
120Mtokens
4.
113Mtokens
5.
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Hermes Agent
102Mtokens
Rest of OpenRouter
164M
Top 5 Apps
28.4M

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

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Documentation

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