product · May 13, 2026
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 Model with 262K Context Window
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, featuring a 262K context window and up to 98K output tokens. The model supports enhanced reasoning, vision, tool-use, and implicit caching for inference efficiency. Pricing starts at $0.400 per 1M input tokens and $1.90 per 1M output tokens across 11 providers including OpenRouter and Hugging Face. It garnered 5,222,216 Hugging Face downloads in the last 30 days as of May 13, 2026. Kimi K2.5 updates the prior K2 version.
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