Kimi K2 0905 (Novita): benchmark scores, price and ranking
Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) from Moonshot ranks #448 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (47.3), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- Moonshot
- Type
- Open-weight / local model
- Open weights
- Yes
- Released
- 2025-09-05 (source: epoch)
- Cheapest API price
- $0.600 in / $2.50 out per million tokens (via novita, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
- Aggregate rank
- #448 of 743 (score 47.3)
Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.
Its cheapest listed input price, $0.600 per million tokens, is lower than that of 45% of the 427 models with a listed price.
Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 267 | #72 of 79 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
About Kimi K2 0905 (Novita)
Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Moonshot. It was released on 2025-09-05, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.600 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, through novita. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) stands
On our aggregate score, Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) is #448 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 47.3; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 2.7 points below the typical model. That beats 40% of the ranked field. Among the 13 ranked Moonshot models it is #12. The next one up is Kimi K2.7 Code at 47.3. The next one down is Kimi K2 Instruct at 47.1.
Kimi K2 0905 (Novita), benchmark by benchmark
ALE-Bench is a weak spot. Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) scores 267, #72 of 79, behind 90% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-6 Astra (max), reaches 2,951. It covers AtCoder heuristic-optimisation contests (performance rating). The board median is 764, so Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) is 497 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
Price and value
The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Kimi K2 0905 (Novita) costs more than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct ($0.010, 46.5). Similar scores cost more on Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct ($0.630) and Kimi K2.6 ($0.650).
Release history
The Moonshot model released before it was Kimi K2 Instruct on 2025-07-11, which scores 47.1. The next one was Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 on 2025-09-05, at 49.5.
Reading these numbers
The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
Models ranked nearby
- #445 command-a-03-2025-quality (47.3)
- #446 Cogito v2.1 (671B) (47.3)
- #447 gpt-oss-120b (high) (47.3)
- #449 gpt-5.6-terra-xhigh (codex-harness) (47.3)
- #450 Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct (47.2)
- #451 ollama/yi-coder:9b-chat-fp16 (47.2)
More from Moonshot
- Kimi K3 (max) (#15, 55.7)
- Kimi K2.5 (Fireworks) (#50, 52.8)
- Kimi K2.5 (#173, 50.7)
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo (#187, 50.5)
- Kimi K2 Thinking (Together) (#240, 49.7)
- Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 (#258, 49.5)
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