Kimi K2.5

API ID kimi-k2.5

kimi-k2.5 was a Moonshot AI model, released January 2026.

Status: Retired
Released: January 2026
Shutdown: Aug 31, 2026
Replacement: Kimi K3kimi-k3

kimi-k2.5 stopped serving on August 31, 2026. Recommended replacement: kimi-k3.

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them

Comparing with Kimi K2 0711 Preview, the previous model in this line. A score is compared only with the same benchmark from the same source, at the same setting where both have it. Full comparison: prices, limits, features

Arena

Arena	Kimi K2.5	Kimi K2 0711 Preview	Change	Rank	Date	Source
Text Other settings 1431 ±7 vs not rated no thinking By category Math 1471 rank 53 vs 1388 (+83) at thinking (vs no setting) Creative writing 1423 rank 80 vs 1371 (+52) at thinking (vs no setting) Instruction following 1439 rank 82 vs 1381 (+58) at thinking (vs no setting) Hard prompts 1471 rank 83 vs 1432 (+39) at thinking (vs no setting) Long prompts 1458 rank 78 vs 1395 (+63) at thinking (vs no setting) Multi-turn 1452 rank 85 vs 1419 (+33) at thinking (vs no setting) Expert 1482 rank 69 vs 1415 (+67) at thinking (vs no setting)	1450 ±3	1418 ±5	+32	79 of 415 74,777 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Text: Coding Other settings 1502 ±5 vs not rated thinking	1504 ±14	1460 ±8	+44	69 of 410 1,874 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
WebDev Other settings 1405 ±12 vs not rated no thinking	1436 ±5	not rated		78 of 142 20,135 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Vision Other settings 1236 ±11 vs not rated no thinking	1252 ±6	not rated		51 of 165 28,297 votes	Oct 9, 2026	source
Document	1436 ±7	not rated		37 of 44 21,569 votes	Sep 13, 2026	source

Rated as kimi-k2.5-thinking; Kimi K2 0711 Preview as kimi-k2-0711-preview. Some were rated at different settings; ratings on one arena share one scale, so the difference still reads directly. Ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text, Vision and Document are style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Epoch AI

Benchmark	Kimi K2.5	Kimi K2 0711 Preview	Change	Setting	Run	Source
SimpleQA Verified	34.3%	not run			Aug 27, 2026	source
SWE-bench Verified	73.8%	not run			Feb 17, 2026	source

Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates

Platform	Platform ID	State	Shutdown	Time left	Replacement	Source
Amazon Bedrock	moonshotai.kimi-k2.5	Active	not before Jan 27, 2027		—	source
Microsoft Foundryversion 1	Kimi-K2.5	Active	Jan 26, 2027	103 days	—	source

Microsoft Foundry (version 1) retires this model 148 days after Moonshot AI's own API.

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use Moonshot AI's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

No price history yet.

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier

No published prices.

Changelog

Changes we detected on Moonshot AI's pages

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Last checked Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 am ET · Sources: Moonshot AI pricing, Moonshot AI batch, Moonshot AI models