Moonshot Releases Kimi K2
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-12
Moonshot has released Kimi K2, its first new frontier model in a year. The original post highlights it as an open-source agentic model with 1T total / 32B active MoE parameters. It shows strong performance on open model benchmarks like SWE Bench Verified, Tau2, and AceBench, making it particularly suited for coding and agentic tasks.
API and open-source resources provided:
- API is now open
- Pricing: Input $0.15 / million tokens (cache hit), $0.60 / million tokens (cache miss); Output $2.50 / million tokens
- Includes a tech blog, weights & code, GitHub, and a trial link
The post also notes that multimodal and thought mode are currently unsupported.
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