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Kimi-K2-Instruct

SIZE1T

71Quality

Text

Downloads350K/mo

Likes3K

Language model from Moonshot, 1T parameters.

Open weightsModified MIT603/1044

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Kimi-K2-Instruct

Language model from Moonshot, 1T parameters.

moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

Type: Text
Quality: 71 · Top 29% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Parameters: 1T (1,026,408,235,864)
Downloads: 350K in the last 30 days
Likes: 3K
Access to weights: Open download
On Hugging Face since: Jul 11, 2025
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Access: Open weights
License: Modified MIT
Rarity: Promo
Set number: 603/1044

Open on Hugging Face Quality 71 Where to run it 18 Evolution 1/5 Race it 37 tok/s Meet its creature Battle Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct

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-Instruct, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 29% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #82.

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

Epoch Capabilities Index#82 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.146.0 index
Listed as Kimi K2 Thinking

Scores from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

16 providers sell Kimi-K2-Instruct through an API, and 2 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestNanoGPT$0.40 in · $1.80 out
Free to try1 provideriFlow
Fastest on Hugging FaceNovita37 tokens/s

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
iFlowFree`kimi-k2`	Free	Free	128K
NanoGPTCheapest paid`moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct`	$0.40	$1.80	256K
IO.NET`moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905`	$0.39	$1.90	33K
Eden AI`deepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct`	$0.50	$2.00	131K
Helicone`kimi-k2-0905`	$0.50	$2.00	262K
FastRouter`moonshotai/kimi-k2`	$0.55	$2.20	131K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`kimi-k2`	$0.57	$2.30	256K
Jiekou.AI`moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct`	$0.57	$2.30	131K
Kilo Gateway`moonshotai/kimi-k2`	$0.57	$2.30	131K
LLM Gateway`novita/kimi-k2`	$0.57	$2.30	131K

Show 6 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Novita AI`moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct`	$0.57	$2.30	131K
OpenRouter`moonshotai/kimi-k2`	$0.57	$2.30	131K
Vercel AI Gateway`moonshotai/kimi-k2`	$0.57	$2.30	131K
OpenCode`kimi-k2`	$0.40	$2.50	262K
AI/ML API`moonshotai/kimi-k2`	$0.78	$3.16	131K
Qiniu`kimi-k2`	—	—	128K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Host	Input	Output	Context	Speed	First token
NovitaFastestTools	$0.57	$2.30	131K	37 tok/s	2.2s
Featherless	—	—	—	—	—

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

Kimi-K2-Instruct

Kimi-K2-Instruct

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