Moonshot AI

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...

ReasoningTool callingVisionStreamingJSON mode
262.1K token context Released Jan 27, 2026

Intelligence overview

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Coding

262.1K tok

Context window

235.9K tok

Max output

Capabilities

What MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 can do.

Reasoning

Extended reasoning

Works through problems step by step before answering, trading latency for accuracy on harder tasks.

Multimodal

Image understanding

Reads and reasons over images alongside text in the same prompt.

Development

Tool calling

Calls external functions mid-response, then continues reasoning from the result.

Structured output

Returns responses constrained to a JSON schema, ready to parse without cleanup.

Streaming

Streams tokens as they're generated instead of waiting on the full response.

Performance

Coding46.8
Artificial Analysis

Design Arena — ranked #8 across 13 categories

Pricing

Pay for what you use.

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INPUT

$0.45 / 1M tok

OUTPUT

$2.25 / 1M tok

Cache read$0.07 / 1M tok
Use cases

Built for serious work.

Build

Generate and refactor code, with the ability to run and verify tool calls and return structured, parseable output.

Think

Works through multi-step problems with extended reasoning before it answers.

Research

Holds up to 262.1K tokens of source material in context without losing the thread.

Create

Reads images alongside a prompt to ground creative and design work in what's actually on screen.

Automate

Chains tool calls across multi-step workflows, reasoning between each one.

Preview

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Comparison

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Specification

Technical details.

Specification

Context window
262.1K tokens
Max output
235.9K tokens
Input modalities
Text + Image
Output modalities
Text
Release date
Jan 27, 2026
Streaming
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
JSON mode
Supported

Model identity

Provider
Moonshot AI
Provider ID
moonshotai

Model ID

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