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Kimi K2.5 (EmberCloud)
moonshotai·moonshotai/kimi-k2.5-8·GA·Open weights·kimi-k2 series
Earlier Kimi frontier model for long-context agents, coding, and multimodal work
At a glance
Reference price$0.405 / $1.98 per 1M
Cache read $0.225 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.405 / $1.98
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context262,144
Output limit262,144
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured outputTemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2026-01 / 2026-01
Quality & performance
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Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway embercloud/kimi-k2.5 | Gateway | $0.405 | $1.98 | $0.225 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$158.40
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Related models
Kimi K2.7 Code Fastsame series$1.90 / $8.00Kimi K2.7 Codesame series$0.95 / $4.00Kimi K2.7 Code Flexsame series$0.475 / $2.00Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instructcheaper alternative$0.216 / $0.861Llama-3.1-8B-Instructcheaper alternative$0.15 / $0.45Qwen3 Coder Flashcheaper alternative$0.144 / $0.574
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.405Output list $1.98Min blended $0.799
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.