Kimi K2 API

moonshotai/kimi-k2
Kimi K2 0711 on AIMLAPI.
Context
128K tokens
Input
$0.783978 / 1M tokens
Output
$3.16342 / 1M tokens
Released
Jul 11, 2025

Overview

What is Kimi K2 0711 API?

Kimi K2 0711 is available through AIMLAPI.

Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Image, Text
- Output: Text
- Context window: 131,072 tokens / Max output: 100,352 tokens
- Endpoint: /chat/completions

Performance Benchmarks
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Kimi K2 0711 API Pricing
- Input: $0.741 / 1M tokens
- Output: $2.99 / 1M tokens

Where to Use Kimi K2 0711

Coding and code review
Generate, debug, and review code across languages, reading whole files or repos in a single prompt.

Agentic and multi-step workflows
Reliable tool-calling and instruction-following suit agent loops that plan, call tools, and iterate.

Complex reasoning
Extended reasoning improves reliability on multi-step math, logic, and technical analysis.

Long-document analysis
Summarize and extract from contracts, papers, and reports without aggressive chunking.

Code Sample
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Uptime and performance

  • Uptime (24h): 100%
  • Uptime (7d): 100%
  • Availability (24h): 50.0%
  • Error rate (24h): 50.0%
  • End-to-end latency (24h median): 6.5s
  • Throughput (24h median): 47.0 tok/s

Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.

Use cases

  • Tool Automation: Streamlining workflows that require dynamic integration of external APIs, data services, and automated actions.
  • Enterprise Automation: Complex business processes where agents must interact with diverse digital tools and environments.
  • Multilingual Applications: Cross-cultural, multilingual scenarios demanding high context retention and nuanced understanding.
  • R&D Prototyping: Rapid experimentation with AI agents in simulated and real-world tool environments.

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How to use Kimi K2 API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to moonshotai/kimi-k2.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Hello!"
        }
      ]
    },
)
print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ]
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"moonshotai/kimi-k2","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Kimi K2 API Pricing

TypePrice
Input
$0.783978 / 1M tokens
Output
$3.16342 / 1M tokens

Kimi K2 Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
Intelligence
22
Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 12, 2026
Math
94.7
Composite score across standardised mathematics evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 12, 2026
LiveCodeBench
53.7
Contamination-free competitive programming problemsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
SWE-bench Verified
51.8
Resolving verified real GitHub issuesSourceSeptember 22, 2026
MMLU
78.2%
Multi-discipline knowledge across 57 school and professional subjectsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
HumanEval
79.1%
Python function synthesis from a docstring, scored by unit tests (pass@1)SourceSeptember 22, 2026
MATH
68.5%
Competition mathematics problems across five difficulty levelsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
GSM8K
94.8%
Grade-school maths word problems requiring multi-step arithmeticSourceSeptember 22, 2026
HellaSwag
89.2%
Commonsense sentence completion with adversarially filtered wrong endingsSourceSeptember 22, 2026

Kimi K2 vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Kimi K2
This page
$0.783978 / 1M tokens
$3.16342 / 1M tokens
128K tokens
Reasoning + agents
$6.5 / 1M tokens
$39 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents
$2.6 / 1M tokens
$13 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Balanced coding + agents
$3.9 / 1M tokens
$19.5 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$11.7 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents

Frequently asked questions

Kimi K2 has a 131,072 tokens context window and can return up to 100,352 tokens.

Kimi K2 takes image, text as input and returns text.

Use moonshotai/kimi-k2 as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.

Kimi K2 is priced at input $0.783978 / 1M tokens, output $3.16342 / 1M tokens.

Yes, Kimi K2 can stream responses as they are generated.

Yes, Kimi K2 accepts image input alongside text.

Kimi K2 was built by Moonshot AI.

Yes, Kimi K2 includes reasoning as both a feature and a capability.

Yes, it supports function calling, tool use, and parallel tool calls.

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