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Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct vs Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking

Compare Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct from Moonshot AI and Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Kimi-K2 is a MoE architecture foundational model with extremely powerful coding and agent capabilities, featuring a total of 1 trillion parameters and activating 32 billion parameters. In benchmark performance tests across major categories such as general knowledge reasoning, programming, mathematics, and agents, the K2 model outperforms other mainstream open-source models. The Kimi-K2 model supports a context length of 128k tokens. It does not support visual capabilities.

Input$0.548 /M
Output$2.192 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct
Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking
Input /M
$0.548
$0.548
Output /M
$2.192
$2.192
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Time to First Token
1.2 s
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Throughput
0.8 tok/s
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

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Overall
14181418
Coding
14671467
Math
14161416
Hard prompts
14371437
Instruction following
13901390
Multi-turn
14041404
Creative writing
13821382
Longer query
14031403
Chinese
14541454
English
14231423

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct
$65.76 /mo
Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking
$65.76 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct, Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking?

Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct: $2.192/M output tokens; Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking: $2.192/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct: 1467; Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking: 1467 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Can I call Alicloud Kimi K2 Instruct and Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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