Kimi coding model with more efficient thinking and up to 1M context, available through Kimi CodeKimi K2.8 Preview by moonshotai is offered by 4 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 2 of them. No official API price is listed for it; the prices below come from third-party channels. The lowest paid channel is LLM Gateway at $1.00 / $4.00 per 1M. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 1,000,000 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi For Coding (kimi.com) kimi-for-coding | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | ||
| Kimi For Coding (kimi.ai) kimi-for-coding | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | ||
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $1.00 | $4.00 | $0.25 | — | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $1.00 | $4.00 | $0.25 | — | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 2 of 4 providers.
2 more channels offer $0 (Kimi For Coding (kimi.com), Kimi For Coding (kimi.ai)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.