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Kimi-K2.5

Vision-language model from Moonshot, 1T parameters.

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
Type
Text
Quality
76 · Top 24% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Parameters
1T (1,026,879,376,368)
Downloads
320K in the last 30 days
Likes
2.9K
Access to weights
Open download
On Hugging Face since
Jan 1, 2026
Takes in
Text, Image
Puts out
Text
Access
Open weights
License
Modified MIT
Rarity
Promo
Set number
736/1044
Open on Hugging FaceQuality 76Where to run it 48Evolution 2/5Race it 56 tok/sMeet its creatureBattle Qwen3.5-2B-Base

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Stats from Moonshot’s official Hugging Face account, refreshed daily.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Kimi-K2.5, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 24% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #66.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

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Where to run it

45 providers sell Kimi-K2.5 through an API, and 3 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Alibaba Coding PlanFreekimi-k2.5FreeFree262K
Alibaba Coding Plan (China)Freekimi-k2.5FreeFree262K
Alibaba Token PlanFreekimi-k2.5FreeFree262K
Alibaba Token Plan (China)Freekimi-k2.5FreeFree262K
SCNet Token PlanFreeKimi-K2.5FreeFree262K
Tencent Coding Plan (China)Freekimi-k2.5FreeFree262K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)Cheapest paidkimi-k2.5$0.41$1.98262K
LLM Gatewayembercloud/kimi-k2.5$0.41$1.98262K
NanoGPTmoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.38$2.00262K
Deep Inframoonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.45$2.25262K
Show 35 more providers
ProviderInputOutputContext
Eden AIdeepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.45$2.25262K
SiliconFlowmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.45$2.25262K
SiliconFlow (China)Pro/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.45$2.25262K
Alibaba (China)kimi-k2.5$0.57$2.41262K
OpenRoutermoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.50$2.50262K
DigitalOceankimi-k2.5$0.50$2.70262K
Meganovamoonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.45$2.80262K
Aurikokimi-k2.5$0.50$2.80262K
TensorXmoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.50$2.80262K
Meliouskimi-k2.5$0.58$2.96262K
Abacuskimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
AIHubMixkimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Amazon Bedrockmoonshotai.kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Azurekimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Azure Cognitive Serviceskimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Basetenmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.5$0.60$3.00262K
DaoXEkimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
FrogBotkimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00256K
HPC-AImoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00256K
Jalapeno CloudKimi-K2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Jiekou.AImoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Kilo Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Merge Gatewaymoonshot/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Novita AImoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Ofoxmoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
OpenCodekimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
OrcaRouterkimi/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00262K
Poenovita/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00128K
Vercel AI Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.60$3.00256K
ZenMuxmoonshotai/kimi-k2.5$0.58$3.02262K
302.AIkimi-k2.5$0.66$3.30262K
Venice AIkimi-k2-5$0.56$3.50256K
Requestykimi-k2.5@eu$0.72$3.60128K
Ollama Cloudkimi-k2.5——262K
Qiniumoonshotai/kimi-k2.5——256K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

HostInputOutputContextSpeedFirst token
DeepInfraTools$0.45$2.25262K15 tok/s0.8s
NovitaFastestTools$0.60$3.00262K56 tok/s0.9s
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