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Kimi K2.7 Code

MoonshotReleased Jun 12, 2026Open weights · Modified MITkimi-k2.7-code

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Intelligence (Epoch)
150 · 40th of 111
Reasoning
yes
Knowledge cutoff
April 2026
Context
262K tokens
Max output
64k tokens
Input
text, image, video
API features
tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, seed, logprobs
Moonshot's API
yes, as kimi-k2.7-code

Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from Moonshot · cutoff: aiknowledgecutoff.com

Lowest input, per M$0.67at Inceptron
Cheapest cache, per M$0.14at DeepInfra
Fastest98 tok/sat Inceptron, on OpenRouter
Providers15serve this version

The cheapest host, StreamLake, serves a weights precision we can't read (host terms). Cheapest at the maker's precision and context: Inceptron, $4.02 blended. Weights and context per host

Intelligence for the price

12 models score higher for the same price or less; it ranks 13 of the 72 models at its price or below.

100120140160180$0.10$1$10$100GPT-4o mini: 126 at $0.75gpt-oss-20b: 138 at $0.12GPT-4.1 mini: 135 at $2.00Gemini 3.6 Flash: 155 at $4.50Llama 3.3 70B: 127 at $0.42Llama 3.1 8B: 116 at $0.06gpt-oss-120b: 140 at $0.18DeepSeek Chat: 146 at $1.21DeepSeek R1: 139 at $2.65Llama 4 Scout: 130 at $0.40Llama 4 Maverick: 132 at $1.00Qwen 2.5 72B: 129 at $0.76Gemma 3 27B: 130 at $0.24DeepSeek V3.2: 146 at $0.52Kimi K2.6: 151 at $2.40GLM 5.2: 152 at $2.36Qwen3.8 27B: 152 at $1.29Gemini 3.8 Flash: 157 at $4.50Gemini 3.7 Flash: 158 at $4.50Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: 145 at $2.80DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 156 at $2.50DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 156 at $0.47GLM-5.3: 156 at $2.36Grok 4.6: 157 at $8.00Grok 4.7: 154 at $8.00Grok 4.5: 154 at $8.00Claude Opus 5: 164 at $30.00Claude Opus 5.5: 169 at $24.00Claude Sonnet 5: 157 at $12.00Claude Fable 5: 163 at $60.00Claude Fable 5.1: 166 at $60.00GPT-6 Astra: 169 at $60.00GPT-6 Sol: 164 at $12.00GPT-6 Luna: 157 at $0.60GPT-5.6 Sol: 163 at $24.00GPT-5.6 Terra: 160 at $14.00GPT-5.6 Luna: 156 at $1.40DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 155 at $0.21GLM-5.3-Flash: 153 at $0.19Kimi K3: 158 at $11.35DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423: 149 at $2.40DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423: 146 at $0.21GLM 5.1: 150 at $4.00Gemma 4 31B: 143 at $0.38MiniMax-M3: 147 at $1.19Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507: 139 at $0.44Qwen3.6 35B A3B: 144 at $1.00MiniMax M2.7: 146 at $1.05Qwen3.5 397B A17B: 147 at $3.45GLM 5: 146 at $2.52Gemma 4 26B A4B: 142 at $0.26MiniMax M2.5: 147 at $1.22Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: 142 at $1.14Kimi K2.5: 148 at $2.70DeepSeek V3.1: 140 at $1.20Qwen3.6 27B: 146 at $2.25GLM 4.7: 144 at $2.15Qwen3.5 9B: 139 at $0.25Qwen3 30B A3B: 136 at $0.24Nemotron 3 Ultra: 146 at $2.70Mistral Nemo: 119 at $0.038Mistral Medium 3.5: 141 at $9.00DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: 145 at $0.34Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: 144 at $2.53Mistral Medium 3: 134 at $2.40Qwen3 14B: 138 at $0.32Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: 126 at $0.80Mixtral 8x22B Instruct: 122 at $8.00Kimi K2 Thinking: 146 at $3.10Qwen3 32B: 138 at $0.36DeepSeek V3: 132 at $1.21Inkling: 148 at $5.00Inkling Small: 150 at $1.65Qwen3 Max: 142 at $7.20Gemma 3 12B: 124 at $0.15Qwen3.8 Max: 157 at $8.00Qwen3.7 Max: 154 at $5.00Qwen3.7 Flash: 144 at $0.16Qwen3.7 Plus: 147 at $2.00Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20: 146 at $2.80Qwen3.6 Flash: 143 at $1.75Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 149 at $9.10Qwen3.6 Plus: 147 at $3.50Qwen3.5-Flash: 144 at $0.50Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507: 140 at $2.60Qwen3 8B: 136 at $0.88Mistral Small 3.1 24B: 128 at $0.91Gemma 3 4B: 116 at $0.09Phi 4: 130 at $0.21Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: 119 at $1.66Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 119 at $0.30Command R+ (08-2024): 119 at $12.50Gemma 2 27B: 122 at $1.30Claude Sonnet 5.5: 166 at $12.00GPT-6.1 Sol: 168 at $12.00Gemini 4 Argon: 166 at $12.00Mistral Large 4: 150 at $5.54Claude Haiku 5.5: 159 at $0.60Muse Wonder: 162 at $24.00Muse Spark 1.3: 157 at $5.50Muse Spark Open: 155 at $5.50GPT-4.1: 137 at $10.00GPT-5.3 Codex: 157 at $15.75Claude Opus 4.1: 144 at $90.00Claude Sonnet 4.5: 147 at $18.00Claude Haiku 4.5: 142 at $6.00Gemini 2.5 Pro: 145 at $11.25Gemini 2.5 Flash: 141 at $2.80Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 155 at $14.00Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 152 at $3.50Kimi K2.7 Code · 150

Epoch Capabilities Index against the lowest input + output price per M, log scale · prices Oct 23. Score: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0, 150 with an interval of 148 to 152.

Against its rivals

The best of its price range and the top score

Same level for 20× less: GLM-5.3-Flash at StreamLake, $0.19 per M input + output · their Epoch intervals overlap (153 against 150).

Bars: Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0), drawn from 100, below the lowest score in the catalogue · price: lowest input + output per M.

Speed by provider

Output speed of Kimi K2.7 Code at each host, fastest first

Speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · a snapshot of real traffic before the daily read, not a daily average · bars from zero.

Run it yourself

open weights, Modified MIT · too large for the 6 workstations in our guideSelf-host guide ›
Parameters
1000B
32B active per token (MoE)
Memory needed
600 GB
in INT4 · 1200 GB in INT8
Smallest cloud setup
8× H100
640 GB · $17.20/h, about $12,556 a month
Worth it above
3B tokens
a month, against the cheapest API at $3.71 per M
QuantizationMemorySmallest cloud GPUQuality
INT4 (Q4)600 GB8× H100 · $17.20/hsmallest footprint, minor quality loss
INT8 (Q8)1200 GBmulti-node, over 640 GBnear-lossless
FP16 (full)2400 GBmulti-node, over 640 GBreference quality

At home: 600 GB in INT4 is beyond any desktop or Mac in our machines table, so it means a multi-GPU server.

Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator

Sorted by cache price
ProviderInputOutputCache ↑tok/sFirst tokenUptime 24hChecked
DeepInfrafp4 · 256K ctx$0.68$3.40$0.14———Sep 29
StreamLakeprecision not read: host terms · 250K ctx · 32K out−25%$0.71$3.00$0.14540.80 s100%Oct 23
CoreWeaveint4 · 256K ctx$0.71$3.50$0.15750.57 s100%Oct 23
Nebiusfp4 · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.15681.07 s97.9%Oct 23
Veniceint4 · 250K ctx · 64K out$0.75$3.50$0.16432.32 s100%Oct 23
BaseTenprecision not stated · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.16——100%Sep 27
SiliconFlowfp8 · 256K ctx$0.86$3.80$0.18290.91 s100%Oct 23
Inceptronint4 · 256K ctx$0.67$3.35$0.18980.73 s99.9%Oct 23
Novita AIint4 · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19———Oct 23
GMICloudfp8 · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19251.5 s100%Oct 23
Alibabafp8 · 256K ctx · 16K out$0.95$4.00$0.19470.86 s93.1%Oct 23
Together AIprecision not stated · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19———Sep 8
Cloudflareprecision not stated · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19560.73 s100%Oct 23
Moonshot AIint4 · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19531.05 s100%Oct 23
Phalaprecision not read: host terms · 256K ctx$0.95$4.00$0.19———Oct 22

10 of 15 providers · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · −N%: a discount off the host's list price · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs

ProviderWeightsContextMax outputToolsStructured outputsReasoning
StreamLakenot read: host terms250K32Kyesyesyes
Inceptronint4256Knot stated by the hostyesyesyes
DeepInfrafp4256Knot stated by the host———
CoreWeaveint4256Knot checked yetyesyesyes
Veniceint4250K64Kyesyesyes
SiliconFlowfp8256Knot read: host termsyesnoyes
Novita AIint4256Knot stated by the hostyesyesyes
BaseTennot stated by the host256Knot stated by the host———
GMICloudfp8256Knot read: host termsyesyesyes
Alibabafp8256K16Kyesyesyes
Together AInot stated by the host256Knot stated by the host———
Cloudflarenot stated by the host256Knot stated by the hostyesyesyes
Moonshot AIint4256Knot checked yetyesyesyes
Nebiusfp4256Knot stated by the hostyesyesyes
Phalanot read: host terms256Knot read: host terms———

Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us

Kimi K2.7 Code spec sheet, field by field, with sources

Kimi K2.7 Code spec sheetmaker-declared

What Moonshot declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.

Context window
262,144 tokens
Parameters
1,026,879,376,368≈ 1.03T
Active experts
8 of 384 active per token
Weight precision
not published by the maker
License
Modified MIT — open weights, conditionalcuratedScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
Knowledge cutoff
not published by the maker≈ April 2026 third-party estimate — not the maker's figurecurated
Modalities
text · image · video
Max output (official)
to verify
Release date
to verify≈ June 12, 2026 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
Maker lifecycle status
to verify

Also declared in the weights

Architecture class
KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Layers
61
Vocabulary
163,840 tokens
Weights first published
June 11, 2026
Weights last updated
June 15, 2026

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code · config.json @ 74797c9 · read 2026-10-08 · 5 of 10 fields published by the maker

DateProviderInputOutputChange
Sep 30Inceptron$0.66 → $0.67$3.30 → $3.35+2%
Sep 25Inceptron$0.71 → $0.66$3.30 → $3.30−1%
Sep 23Inceptron$0.71 → $0.71$3.21 → $3.30+2%
Sep 7Novita AI$0.91 → $0.95$3.84 → $4.00+4%
Sep 5Moonshot AI$1.90 → $0.95$8.00 → $4.00−50%

Every published change of input or output price, newest first · change on input + output · full series: pricing-history.csv.

ProviderChatbot 1,000 in / 500 outRAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 outBatch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out
StreamLake$2.21$7.20$5.85
Inceptron$2.35$7.04$6.03
DeepInfra$2.38$7.14$6.12
CoreWeave$2.46$7.43$6.34
Venice$2.50$7.75$6.50
SiliconFlow$2.76$8.77$7.24
Novita AI$2.95$9.60$7.80
BaseTen$2.95$9.60$7.80
GMICloud$2.95$9.60$7.80
Alibaba$2.95$9.60$7.80
Together AI$2.95$9.60$7.80
Cloudflare$2.95$9.60$7.80
Moonshot AI$2.95$9.60$7.80
Nebius$2.95$9.60$7.80
Phala$2.95$9.60$7.80

What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job

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