Migrating from kimi-k2-0711-preview to kimi-k2.5

What changes when you move from kimi-k2-0711-preview to kimi-k2.5: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.

From: kimi-k2-0711-preview
Status: Retired
Shutdown: May 25, 2026
Time left: —

To: kimi-k2.5
Status: Retired
Shutdown: Aug 31, 2026
Time left: —

kimi-k2.5 is itself retired. Its replacement is kimi-k3.

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

Neither model has published per-token prices.

Limits

Tokens

Neither company publishes a context window or output limit for these models.

Benchmarks

Same benchmark and source on both sides; settings named where they differ

Benchmark	kimi-k2-0711-preview	kimi-k2.5	Change
Arena TextArena, thinking (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. Other settings not rated → 1431 ±7 no thinking	1418 ±5	1450 ±3	+32
Arena Text: CodingArena, no thinking (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap. Other settings not rated → 1502 ±5 thinking	1460 ±8	1504 ±14	+44

A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Features and parameters

Compare models

Neither company publishes feature facts for these models.

Aliases

All aliases

No aliases point at either model.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates

Model	Platform	Platform ID	Shutdown	Time left
kimi-k2-0711-preview	Groq	moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct	Oct 10, 2025Retired on October 10, 2025
kimi-k2.5	Amazon Bedrock	moonshotai.kimi-k2.5	not before Jan 27, 2027Active
kimi-k2.5	Microsoft Foundryversion 1	Kimi-K2.5	Jan 26, 2027Active	103 days

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Checklist

Change the model string from kimi-k2-0711-preview to kimi-k2.5.

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