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Kimi K2.5

Active Parameters

1T

Context Length

512K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Modified MIT License

Release Date

5 Feb 2026

Knowledge Cutoff

Oct 2025

API Pricing (per 1M)

Input: $0.60 · Output: $2.75

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

2103.65 GB VRAM

Consumer

140x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

34x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

30x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

512,000 tokens

3176.08 GB VRAM

Consumer

234x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

55x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

52x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: AbsoluteHidden: 7.2k · Context: 512K · Vocab: 163.8kx 61 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionMulti-Head Attention64Q / 64KV headsHead dim: 112+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (8/384 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 2k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#47

BenchmarkScoreRank

Professional Knowledge

MMLU Pro

0.871

5

Software Engineering

SWE-bench Verified

0.71

14

0.649

19

Graduate-Level QA

GPQA

0.876

32

Web Development

WebDev Arena

1436

53

General Text

Text Arena
auto

1451

Standard

1431

54

73

Agentic Index

Artificial Analysis

0.22

70

0.47

90

Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis

0.23

124

Rankings

Overall Rank

#47

Coding Rank

#52

About Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is a 1T-parameter native multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model from Moonshot AI engineered for complex reasoning and agent swarm orchestration. It supports up to 100 parallel sub-agents and visual coding workflows across a 256K context window.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Multi-Head Attention

Attention Heads

64

Key-Value Heads

64

Attention Head Dimension

-

Position Embedding

Absolute Position Embedding

RoPE Theta

50,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

7,168

Number of Layers

61

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

2,048

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

0

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

163,840

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

968.0B

Number of Experts

384

Active Experts

8

Shared Experts

1

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

2,048

Dense Layers Before MoE

1

About Kimi K2

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is a Mixture-of-Experts model featuring one trillion total parameters, activating 32 billion per token. Designed for agentic intelligence, it utilizes a sparse architecture with 384 experts and the MuonClip optimizer for training stability, supporting a 128K token context window.


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Kimi K2.5: Specifications and GPU VRAM Requirements