Kimi API pricing: 2 models, per token and per task
The list price of every Moonshot AI model on our list, read from Moonshot AI’s own pricing page, next to what a passing answer cost on the AIGROW small-business benchmark and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
US dollars per million tokens, at the standard rate. No reseller prices.
- Kimi K3
- $3 / $15
- Kimi K2.6
- $0.95 / $4
Input / output list price per million tokens.
Moonshot AI prices the 2 models on our list from Kimi K2.6 at $0.95 in and $4 out per million tokens to Kimi K3 at $3 in and $15 out. On the AIGROW small-business benchmark Kimi K3 had the best record, 19 of 20 tasks passed, at $18.44 per thousand passes.
Per token and per pass
The list price per million tokens, then how many of the benchmark’s 20 office tasks each model passed and what 1,000 passing answers cost, failed runs included.
What three everyday jobs cost
1,000 runs of each job at list price. The token counts are ours; the prices are Moonshot AI’s.
| Model | 1,000 × support reply | 1,000 × document summary | 1,000 × agent task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 | $15.00 | $90.00 | $96.00 |
| Kimi K2.6 | $4.45 | $27.75 | $32.70 |
- Support reply
- A 3,000-token prompt (the ticket, the thread so far and a policy excerpt) and a 400-token answer.
- Document summary
- A 40-page document of about 25,000 tokens in, a 1,000-token summary out.
- Agent task
- Ten steps that read 80,000 tokens between them, 70,000 of them context repeated from step to step and served from cache, and write 3,000.
The small print
What Moonshot AI’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- Kimi K3
- Cache write $3 (5 min TTL) or $6 (1 h TTL). Open weights on Hugging Face (moonshotai/Kimi-K3). Changelog gives the month only.
- Kimi K2.6
- Input price is the cache-miss rate; cache hit $0.16. Previous-generation model kept as the cheaper option. Open weights on Hugging Face (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6). Changelog gives the month only.
Head to head
The comparisons with a Kimi model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
Where the prices come from
- Moonshot AI
- platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
Read on 22 September 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Pay a quarter of list price
AIGROW API credit is metered at the makers’ list prices, like the ones above, and $25 buys $100 of usage. The credit page lists the models it covers.
Prices checked 22 September 2026