Kimi API pricing
On the Moonshot AI API, Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.00 |
| Output | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.20 |
| Cache write | $2.00 |
| Batch input | $1.20 |
| Batch output | $6.00 |
US dollars per million tokens. List prices read 12 November 2026 from Moonshot AI. Batch is the Batch API rate, for requests that need no answer at once.
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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.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Tasks passed | 1,000 passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3.1 ProFlagships | $2.00 | $10.00 | $0.20 | 1.05M | · | · |
| Earlier generations | ||||||
| Kimi K3Replaced by Kimi K3.1 Pro | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | 1.05M | 19 of 20 | $18.44 |
| Kimi K2.6Replaced by Kimi K3.1 Pro | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 | 262K | 15 of 20 | $11.69 |
To see what your own workload costs on every model, use the LLM API cost calculator.
Moonshot AI prices Kimi K3.1 Pro, its one current model on our list, at $2 in and $10 out per million tokens. Prices checked 12 November 2026 on Moonshot AI’s own pricing page. Every model links to its own page and its head-to-head comparisons.
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 K3.1 Pro | $10.00 | $60.00 | $64.00 |
- 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 K3.1 Pro
- Cache write $2 (5 min TTL) or $4 (1 h TTL). A highspeed variant costs $4 / $20. Batch 40% off. Moonshot calls it open-weight. Release date not stated on the official pages.
- Kimi K3
- Moonshot now calls it the previous-generation K3, next to Kimi K3.1 Pro. 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
- Closed to new users since 2026-10-31; Moonshot retires the K2 models by the end of December 2026. Input price is the cache-miss rate; cache hit $0.16. Open weights on Hugging Face (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6). Changelog gives the month only.
A price page for each Kimi model
Earlier generations
- Kimi K3 pricingReplaced by Kimi K3.1 Pro
- Kimi K2.6 pricingReplaced by Kimi K3.1 Pro
Head to head
The comparisons with a Kimi model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
Comparisons with an earlier generation
Where the prices come from
- Moonshot AI
- platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
Read on 12 November 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.
Weigh Kimi against every other maker
The price list sets the models of 11 makers side by side: input and output price per million tokens, and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date · See the LLM leaderboard