Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): benchmark scores, price and ranking

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) from Moonshot is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Moonshot
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Released: 2025-07-12 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.550 in / $2.20 out per million tokens (via vercel_ai_gateway, observed 2026-10-13T21:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.550 per million tokens, is lower than that of 47% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) benchmark results

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	140	#50 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Moonshot. It was released on 2025-07-12, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.550 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens, through vercel_ai_gateway. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) stands

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025), benchmark by benchmark

Epoch ECI puts Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) at 140, #50 of 204. That beats 75% of the models tested, but 16 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are Grok 3 mini (140) and Gemini 2.5 Flash (Apr 2025) (140). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is 13 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

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 0905 (Novita) on 2025-09-05, at 47.3.

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.