Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Revisado pela equipe de pesquisa do GetInfoUsÚltima revisão: October 2026Política editorial

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Kimi K2.5

IA Multimodal Nativa

O Kimi K2.5 da Moonshot AI é um modelo de IA projetado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, oferecendo janela de contexto de 262K, velocidade de 65 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de 86/100 e

Intelligence Index86 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

52%

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Thinking

Raciocínio de Pesos Abertos

O Kimi K2 Thinking da Moonshot AI é um modelo de IA projetado para raciocínio em cadeia de pensamento com pesos abertos e alta eficiência, oferecendo janela de contexto de 262K, velocidade de 55 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de 85/100 e

Intelligence Index85 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

50%

Principais Diferenças em Resumo

Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
Kimi K2.5 is faster at 65 tok/s vs 55 tok/s.
Kimi K2.5 leads on SWE-bench coding (52.0% vs 50.0%).

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Feature	Kimi K2.5	Kimi K2 Thinking
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	86	85
Provider	Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	16K	32K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	65 tok/s	55 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	52%	50%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	69.5%	70%

Quem vence em cada categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Kimi K2.5

+2.0% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Speed

Kimi K2.5

+18% faster generation

Context

Tied

262.1K tokens window

Pontuações de Benchmarks Verificadas

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Kimi K2.5Kimi K2 Thinking

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

52%vs50%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

69.5%vs70%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

82%vs82.5%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1380ptsvs1375pts

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

N/Avs82.5%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

65 tok/s vs55 tok/s

Latência e Tempo de Resposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Kimi K2.50.62s

Kimi K2 Thinking0.95s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Kimi K2.58.31s

Kimi K2 Thinking10.04s

Simulador Interativo de Custo de Tokens

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Kimi K2.5 Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

Kimi K2 Thinking Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

These models cost the same under this workload — no savings either way.Break-even

Kimi K2.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Janela de contexto de 262K com limite máximo de saída de 16K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 52% · GPQA Diamond 69.5%)
Taxa de transferência rápida de 65 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 620 ms
Pesos abertos (1.2T total (36B MoE)) para auto-hospedagem local ou em nuvem privada via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Requer servidores GPU com memória VRAM adequada para execução local em precisão total
Em derivações científicas extremas, modelos pesados dedicados exclusivamente ao raciocínio oferecem maior profundidade

Kimi K2 Thinking · Strengths & Key Advantages

Janela de contexto de 262K com limite máximo de saída de 32K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 50% · GPQA Diamond 70%)
Taxa de transferência rápida de 55 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 950 ms
Pesos abertos (1T total (32B MoE)) para auto-hospedagem local ou em nuvem privada via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Requer servidores GPU com memória VRAM adequada para execução local em precisão total
Em derivações científicas extremas, modelos pesados dedicados exclusivamente ao raciocínio oferecem maior profundidade

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Kimi K2.5	Kimi K2 Thinking
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.00
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	24K	28K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	8K	16K

Especificações Técnicas

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Kimi K2.5	Kimi K2 Thinking
Official API Model ID (SDK)	kimi-k2-5	kimi-k2-thinking
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-01	2025-11
Knowledge Cutoff	November 2025	September 2025
Architecture	Multimodal Open Mixture-of-Experts Transformer	Deliberate Reasoning Open Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Parameters	1.2T total (36B active MoE)	1T total (32B active MoE)
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 744 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 2580 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 620 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 2150 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text, vision	text
Output Modalities	text	text

Kimi K2.5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking: Respostas Rápidas (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Kimi K2.5 or Kimi K2 Thinking?

Kimi K2.5 is more intelligent. It scores 86 compared with 85 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Kimi K2.5 is faster, generating 65 tokens per second compared with 55 tokens per second.

Which model has lower latency?

Kimi K2.5 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.62s compared with 0.95s.

Veredito

Tanto Kimi K2.5 (Indicado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, arquiteturas RAG corporativas e integração escalável via API.) quanto Kimi K2 Thinking (Indicado para raciocínio em cadeia de pensamento com pesos abertos e alta eficiência, arquiteturas RAG corporativas e integração escalável via API.) entregam excelente desempenho: Kimi K2.5 lidera em inteligência geral e programação, Kimi K2.5 oferece geração mais rápida e Kimi K2.5 apresenta o melhor custo-benefício em produção.

Perguntas Frequentes (FAQ)

Qual é melhor para programação e raciocínio, Kimi K2.5 ou Kimi K2 Thinking?+

Nas avaliações de inteligência e código, Kimi K2.5 leva vantagem. Confira os gráficos SWE-bench e GPQA acima para detalhes.

Qual modelo tem a API mais barata, Kimi K2.5 ou Kimi K2 Thinking?+

O Kimi K2.5 custa $0.00 / $0.00 por 1M de tokens (entrada/saída) e o Kimi K2 Thinking custa $0.00 / $0.00. No custo combinado, Kimi K2.5 é mais econômico.

Qual modelo possui maior janela de contexto e velocidade?+

O Kimi K2.5 suporta 262.1K tokens de contexto contra 262.1K tokens do Kimi K2 Thinking, enquanto Kimi K2.5 entrega maior velocidade de geração.

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Kimi K2.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Kimi K2 Thinking · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Especificações Técnicas

Kimi K2.5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking: Respostas Rápidas (FAQ)

Veredito

Perguntas Frequentes (FAQ)

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