Kimi-K2-Instruct vs o1-pro

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

moonshotai · A · Open weights
Params
1,026.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
350 K
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$150.00
Output / 1M
$600.00
AA index
12.4
proprietary · 200K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Kimi-K2-Instruct o1-pro
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 1,026.5 B n/a — API-only
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 131,072 200,000
Licence other Proprietary
Commercial use Unknown Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 350,413 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 4.5 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-11 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.57 $150.00
API output price / 1M tokens $2.30 $600.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.87 $750.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 12.7 12.4
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 98,304 100,000
API providers 1 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Kimi-K2-Instruct $2.87
o1-pro $750.00

Kimi-K2-Instruct is 261.3× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Kimi-K2-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 3,596.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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