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Kimi K2 0905

by Moonshot AI · released Sep 4, 2025 · 1 provider
Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2-0905
Tool callingStructured outputsOpen weights · modified-mit

Kimi K2 0905 is the September update of Kimi K2 0711.

MODEL PRICING

Standard pricing

Run this model at its standard rate. Cheap mode currently has no separate discount.

Input tokens$0.63per 1 million tokens
Output tokens$2.625per 1 million tokens

API routing ceilings, including your 5% Free-plan fee. Included usage applies first, then prepaid credits. Cached tokens and tools can have separate charges.

Context
262k
tokens
Max output
100k
tokens per reply
Input
$0.6
provider baseline / 1M; fee applies
Output
$2.50
provider baseline / 1M; fee applies

Choose how to use Kimi K2 0905

Playground

Try prompts in your browser, create an agent, and see the cost of each reply. Your selected model carries into setup.

Model capabilities below describe the underlying model. Available playground features depend on its provider.

API

Connect your app with a Gizmo API key. Choose fastest or cheapest, stream text responses, and inspect timing, tokens, and charges in request logs.

A current API route is listed for this exact model. Gateway configuration is required for live calls.

Provider price + a transparent platform fee

RateProvider baselineFree plan · 5% feePaid plan · 4% fee
Input / 1M tokens$0.6$0.63$0.624
Output / 1M tokens$2.5$2.625$2.6
API input / 1M tokens$0.6$0.63$0.624
API output / 1M tokens$2.5$2.625$2.6

Legacy chat image rates use the catalog baseline. The dedicated image playground shows separate estimates and settles the provider’s metered usage. API rates are current routing ceilings; final API charges use provider-reported cost plus your fee. Cheapest routing compares eligible OpenRouter and Cheaper Inference rates for the same model; savings are not guaranteed. Cached input or other provider charges may differ. Compare all model rates and verified discounts →

How your plan pays for usage

API and playground share one included allowance. Usage including the fee draws from that allowance first, then your prepaid credits. Plans bill monthly; included usage resets weekly: Free $1, Starter $5, Growth $25, Scale $50.

A $1 provider charge becomes $1.05 on Free or $1.04 on a paid plan before included usage is applied. Plan eligibility still applies in the playground.

Free models and limits

Zero-cost models stay $0, including the fee, and do not consume your dollar allowance. Free accounts can make 1,000 free-model API requests per calendar month, resetting in UTC. Admitted requests count even if the provider fails.

Free includes 20 API requests/minute and 6 playground messages/minute. Paid plans raise these limits. See plan limits.

Before a text API request, Gizmo temporarily reserves included usage and, if necessary, prepaid credit for the model’s full context plus your maximum output. Image jobs reserve twice their displayed estimate. Unused funds return after metering. This hold can exceed the final charge; unconfirmed usage remains marked pending.

Overview

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.

Benchmarks

Design Arena head-to-head, human-voted

CategoryEloWin rateRank
Code111448.5%#89
Websites112048.3%#91

3. Evaluation Results from the model card

BenchmarkMetricK2-Instruct-0905K2-Instruct-0711Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructGLM-4.5DeepSeek-V3.1Claude-Sonnet-4
SWE-Bench verifiedACC69.2 ± 0.6365.869.6*64.2*66.0*72.7*
SWE-Bench MultilingualACC55.9 ± 0.7247.354.7*52.754.5*53.3*
Multi-SWE-BenchACC33.5 ± 0.2831.332.731.729.035.7
Terminal-BenchACC44.5 ± 2.0337.537.5*39.9*31.3*36.4*
SWE-DevACC66.6 ± 0.7261.964.763.253.367.1

Capabilities

Input
✍️ Text
Output
✍️ Text
✓ Tool calling✓ Structured outputs✓ JSON mode✓ Seeded sampling✓ Stop sequences

Sampling controls: temperature, top_p, top_k, max_tokens, frequency_penalty, presence_penalty, repetition_penalty.

Pricing on Gizmo

These are provider baseline rates before Gizmo’s 5% Free-plan or 4% paid-plan fee. Your included usage covers charges first; overage uses prepaid credits. See the fee-inclusive comparison above.

Provider baseline rates

Input
$0.6 / 1M
Output
$2.50 / 1M

Examples before the platform fee

Typical chat turn
$0.0024 2k in · 500 out
$1 of input
≈ 1.67M tokens
$1 of output
≈ 400k tokens
Full context, once
$0.16
Paid plans. This model is above the free tier’s price ceiling. Starter ($20/mo) covers $5 of usage weekly, Growth $25, Scale $50; every paid plan includes $25 in bonus credits.

Providers and pricing

One way to run Kimi K2 0905 on Gizmo.

ProviderRouteInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextUptime 24h
Novita · fp8Lowest priceOpenRouter$0.60$2.50262k100%

Rates are each provider’s, per million tokens, before Gizmo’s 5% (Free) or 4% (paid) fee. “Cheapest” routing starts at the top of this list; “Fastest” starts with the model’s maker.

Run Kimi K2 0905 in under a minute

1

Create your account

Sign up with just an email. Start on the free tier with no card, or pick a paid plan for a bigger weekly allowance and $25 in bonus credits.

2

Your agent is ready

Kimi K2 0905 is preselected as the brain of your first agent. Give it a name and a system prompt, or keep the defaults.

3

Chat, research, create

Live web research and image generation are built in. Every reply shows what it cost, and you can switch models anytime.

Sources. OpenRouter · Hugging Face · Design Arena · Moonshot AI documentation. Verified Sep 9, 2026. Baseline prices are the provider’s list prices at sync time. Gizmo adds a 5% fee on Free or 4% on paid plans; included usage is applied before overage credits.