Best cost/speed trade-off
Google Vertex
google-vertex$1.2333 / 1M tokens
3.19 s estimated response
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking provider comparison
moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning. Built on the trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture introduced in...
- Endpoints:
- 2
- Context:
- 262.1K
- Input:
- text
- Output:
- text
At a glance
Comparison winners
Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.
Cheapest
NovitaAI
novita/bf16$1.2333 / 1M tokens
$0.00185 for the sample request
Fastest
Google Vertex
google-vertex3.19 s estimated response
$1.2333 / 1M tokens
Visual comparison
Price and performance charts
Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.
USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.
NovitaAI has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.00185.
Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.
2 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Google Vertex is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.
Server-rendered comparison
Provider endpoints
Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.
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| Provider / route | Current pricing ↗ | Speed measurements | Endpoint details |
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| Provider / route | Current pricing
| Speed measurements
| Endpoint details
15 parametersfrequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p |
| Provider / route | Current pricing
| Speed measurements
| Endpoint details
17 parametersfrequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p |
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Kimi K2 Thinking deployment guide
How to choose a Kimi K2 Thinking inference provider
Kimi K2 Thinking is indexed here as a text model by MoonshotAI, with 2 provider endpoints from NovitaAI, Google Vertex. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.
Match the endpoint to the workload
The model publishes a 262.1K-token context window. It accepts text input and returns text output. 17 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.
Compare the real request economics
NovitaAI currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.00185. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.
Balance response start and generation speed
Google Vertex currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 3.19 seconds. Google Vertex is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.