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| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting Price | $5.70e-7 per prompt token | $1.05e-6 per prompt token |
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Kimi K2 processes extended conversation histories and complex reasoning tasks through a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per forward pass. The MoE routing mechanism dynamically selects specialized expert subnetworks based on input tokens, enabling efficient computation while maintaining reasoning depth across multi-turn dialogues. This sparse activation pattern allows the model to handle longer context windows than dense models of comparable active parameter count while maintaining inference speed.
Unique: Uses Mixture-of-Experts routing with 32B active parameters from 1T total, enabling longer context reasoning than dense models while maintaining inference efficiency through dynamic expert selection rather than static parameter activation
vs alternatives: Achieves longer context windows and faster inference than dense trillion-parameter models (GPT-4, Claude 3) while maintaining comparable reasoning quality through sparse expert activation
Kimi K2 is trained on multilingual corpora with optimized tokenization for Chinese, English, and other languages, enabling native-level understanding and generation across language pairs without explicit translation layers. The model applies cross-lingual transfer learning, where reasoning patterns learned in one language generalize to others, allowing coherent code-switching and translation-adjacent tasks within single conversations.
Unique: Natively optimized for Chinese language processing with cross-lingual transfer learning, avoiding the performance degradation that English-first models experience on Chinese reasoning and generation tasks
vs alternatives: Outperforms English-centric models (GPT-4, Claude) on Chinese technical content understanding and generation due to balanced multilingual training and native tokenization optimization
Kimi K2 generates and analyzes code by understanding syntactic and semantic structure across multiple programming languages, leveraging its large parameter count and reasoning capabilities to produce contextually appropriate implementations. The model can perform code completion, refactoring suggestions, bug detection, and architectural analysis by reasoning about code patterns, dependencies, and design principles within conversation context.
Unique: Combines MoE sparse activation with long context window to maintain coherence across large code samples and multi-turn refactoring discussions, enabling architectural-level code reasoning without context loss
vs alternatives: Handles longer code contexts and more complex refactoring discussions than Copilot due to extended context window, while providing reasoning transparency comparable to Claude but with faster inference via MoE routing
Kimi K2 performs multi-step reasoning by decomposing complex problems into intermediate steps, maintaining logical consistency across chains of thought. The model can generate explicit reasoning traces, verify intermediate conclusions, and backtrack when logical inconsistencies arise, leveraging its large parameter count and MoE architecture to allocate computational resources to reasoning-heavy tokens.
Unique: MoE architecture allows dynamic allocation of expert capacity to reasoning tokens, enabling longer and more complex reasoning chains without proportional latency increases that dense models would incur
vs alternatives: Maintains reasoning coherence across longer problem decompositions than GPT-4 Turbo due to extended context and sparse activation, while providing comparable reasoning quality to Claude 3 Opus with faster inference
Kimi K2 processes extended documents (research papers, legal contracts, technical specifications) and extracts key information or generates summaries while maintaining semantic fidelity. The model's long context window enables processing entire documents without chunking, preserving cross-document references and maintaining narrative coherence in summaries.
Unique: Extended context window (exact length unspecified but likely 128K+) enables processing entire documents without chunking, preserving cross-document coherence and reducing information loss from segmentation
vs alternatives: Processes longer documents in single pass than GPT-4 (128K context) or Claude 3 (200K context) with faster inference via MoE routing, reducing need for document chunking and multi-step summarization
Kimi K2 is accessible via REST API endpoints supporting both streaming (real-time token-by-token responses) and batch completion modes. The API accepts OpenAI-compatible chat completion message formats (system/user/assistant roles) and returns structured JSON responses, enabling integration into existing LLM application frameworks without custom parsing.
Unique: Provides OpenAI-compatible chat completion API enabling drop-in replacement for existing GPT-4 integrations while maintaining MoE architecture benefits, accessible via OpenRouter for simplified key management
vs alternatives: Offers faster inference than OpenAI API for equivalent reasoning tasks due to MoE sparse activation, while maintaining API compatibility that reduces integration friction vs proprietary model APIs
Kimi K2 accepts system prompts that define behavioral constraints, output formats, and role-based instructions, enabling fine-grained control over response style and content without model fine-tuning. The model maintains system prompt context across multi-turn conversations, ensuring consistent behavior and enabling persona-based interactions (e.g., technical expert, creative writer, code reviewer).
Unique: Maintains system prompt context across extended multi-turn conversations without degradation, enabled by long context window and MoE routing that preserves instruction fidelity across reasoning chains
vs alternatives: Sustains system prompt adherence across longer conversations than GPT-4 due to extended context, while providing comparable instruction-following quality to Claude 3 with faster inference
Kimi K2 can ingest multiple documents, articles, or code samples in a single conversation and synthesize cross-source insights, identify contradictions, and generate comparative analyses. The long context window enables loading multiple sources without chunking, preserving relationships between sources and enabling nuanced synthesis that would be lost with sequential processing.
Unique: Extended context window enables loading all sources simultaneously without chunking, preserving cross-source relationships and enabling synthesis that reflects full source context rather than sequential processing artifacts
vs alternatives: Produces more coherent cross-source synthesis than sequential processing approaches (RAG with separate retrievals) due to simultaneous source access, while maintaining reasoning quality comparable to Claude 3 with faster inference
GLM-5.1 executes multi-step coding tasks over extended timeframes without requiring human intervention between steps, using an internal planning mechanism that decomposes complex objectives into sub-tasks and maintains execution state across sequential operations. Unlike minute-level interaction models that require prompting after each step, this capability enables the model to autonomously navigate decision trees, handle errors, and adapt strategy based on intermediate results without context resets.
Unique: Designed specifically for minute+ autonomous execution windows rather than single-turn interactions; maintains internal execution state and decision-making across extended task horizons without requiring external orchestration or re-prompting between steps
vs alternatives: Outperforms GPT-4 and Claude for long-horizon coding tasks because it's architected for continuous autonomous operation rather than stateless request-response cycles
GLM-5.1 generates and refactors code with awareness of the full codebase structure, dependencies, and patterns, using semantic understanding of how changes in one file propagate to others. The model analyzes import graphs, function signatures, and usage patterns across files to ensure generated code maintains consistency and doesn't introduce breaking changes, rather than treating each file in isolation.
Unique: Maintains semantic awareness of codebase structure and cross-file dependencies during generation, enabling it to make coordinated changes across multiple files rather than treating each file independently
vs alternatives: Produces more consistent multi-file refactorings than Copilot or Claude because it reasons about the entire codebase context simultaneously rather than file-by-file
Z.ai: GLM 5.1 scores higher at 24/100 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711 at 23/100.
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GLM-5.1 diagnoses errors and bugs by analyzing error messages, stack traces, and code context to identify root causes and suggest fixes. The model correlates error symptoms with likely causes, explains why errors occur, and provides specific debugging steps or code fixes.
Unique: Diagnoses errors by correlating symptoms with root causes using semantic understanding of code and error patterns, providing explanations and fixes rather than just pattern matching
vs alternatives: More effective at diagnosing subtle bugs than search-based solutions because it reasons about code semantics and error causality
GLM-5.1 identifies performance bottlenecks in code and suggests optimizations with specific implementation guidance, analyzing algorithms, data structures, and resource usage to recommend improvements. The model understands performance implications of different approaches and can suggest algorithmic or architectural changes to improve efficiency.
Unique: Suggests optimizations based on algorithmic and architectural analysis rather than just code-level tweaks, understanding performance implications of different approaches
vs alternatives: Provides more meaningful performance guidance than generic LLMs because it understands algorithm complexity and can suggest structural improvements
GLM-5.1 analyzes code for security vulnerabilities including injection attacks, authentication/authorization issues, cryptographic weaknesses, and data exposure risks, providing specific remediation guidance. The model understands common vulnerability patterns and security best practices to identify risks and suggest secure implementations.
Unique: Identifies security vulnerabilities through semantic analysis of code patterns and provides remediation guidance based on security best practices, not just pattern matching against known CVEs
vs alternatives: More effective at finding context-specific security issues than SAST tools because it understands code intent and can suggest secure implementations
GLM-5.1 performs step-by-step reasoning about code behavior by internally simulating or tracing execution paths, allowing it to predict runtime behavior, identify bugs, and explain code logic without requiring actual execution. This capability uses chain-of-thought-like reasoning applied specifically to code semantics, tracking variable state, control flow, and function call sequences to reason about correctness.
Unique: Applies extended reasoning specifically to code semantics and execution paths, enabling it to predict runtime behavior and identify subtle bugs through symbolic execution simulation rather than pattern matching
vs alternatives: More effective at finding subtle logic bugs than GPT-4 because it explicitly traces execution state rather than relying on pattern recognition
GLM-5.1 maintains rich context across multiple conversation turns when working on code, remembering previous edits, design decisions, and constraints without requiring users to re-specify them. The model builds an internal model of the codebase state and user intent that persists across turns, enabling iterative refinement where each turn builds on previous work rather than starting fresh.
Unique: Maintains stateful context across turns specifically optimized for code collaboration, remembering design decisions and codebase state without explicit memory structures
vs alternatives: Provides better iterative code refinement than stateless models because it retains context about previous edits and design intent across turns
GLM-5.1 translates natural language specifications into code that preserves semantic intent, handling ambiguous or underspecified requirements by inferring reasonable implementations based on context and common patterns. The model uses semantic understanding of both natural language and code to bridge the gap between high-level intent and low-level implementation details.
Unique: Translates natural language to code with explicit semantic fidelity checking, inferring reasonable implementations for underspecified requirements rather than producing literal or incomplete code
vs alternatives: Handles ambiguous requirements better than Copilot because it uses semantic reasoning to infer intent rather than pattern matching against training data
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