Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI ranks #5 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 9 ranked models, 2 of them in the overall top 20. Its best model is Kimi K3.1 Pro at 66.9 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in reasoning. Prices run from $1.00 to $6.00 per million tokens blended; Kimi K2 is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is Kimi K2 Thinking at 121 tokens per second. 9 of its 13 models ship open weights. It has shipped 9 dated releases, roughly one every 56 days; the last was 23 Oct 2026, so the next would be due between 25 Nov 2026 and 9 Jan 2027 on that pattern.
Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weights Kimi K2 / K3 mixture-of-experts models with strong agentic scores.
- Provider rank
- #5
- by best model
- Best index
- 66.9
- Kimi K3.1 Pro
- Ranked models
- 9
- 9 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $1.00/M
- Kimi K2
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
- Moonshot AI9
Next release
Over the last two years Moonshot AI shipped 9 distinct models, one every 56 days on median. The latest arrived on 23 Oct 2026.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 25 Nov 2026 and 9 Jan 2027.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Kimi K2 Thinking at 121 tok/s.
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Models
Every Moonshot AI model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NewKimi K3.1 Pro | 66.9±6 | $4.00 | 73 | 30 s | 1.0M | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-23 |
| 2 | Kimi K3maxopen ↗ | 64.8±3 | $6.00 | 41 | 53 s | 1.0M | 2026-07-16 | 2026-10-23 |
| 3 | Kimi K2.6thinkingopen ↗ | 59.4±4 | $1.71 | 70 | 67 s | 262k | 2026-04-20 | 2026-04-20 · stale |
| 4 | Kimi K2.5thinkingopen ↗ | 57.6±4 | $1.20 | 68 | 45 s | 262k | 2026-01-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| 5 | Kimi K2.7 Codeopen ↗ | 55.8±4 | $1.71 | 60 | 40 s | 262k | 2026-06-12 | 2026-10-23 |
| 6 | Kimi K2 Turbothinking | 54.8±7 | – | – | – | – | 2025-11-06 | 2026-10-23 |
| 7 | Kimi K2 Thinkingthinkingopen ↗ | 52.4±3 | $1.07 | 121 | 18 s | 262k | 2025-11-06 | 2026-10-13 |
| 8 | Kimi K2 0905open ↗ | 50.5±4 | $1.07 | 48 | 1.51 s | 262k | 2025-09-05 | 2026-10-22 |
| 9 | Kimi K2(Jul 2025)superseded ↗open ↗ | 50.4±4 | $1.00 | 47 | 1.94 s | 131k | 2025-07-11 | 2026-10-22 |
| 10 | Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instructopen ↗ | – | – | – | – | 1M | 2025-10-30 | 2025-10-30 · stale |
| 11 | Kimi Audio 7B | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12 | Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeedopen | – | $3.42 | – | – | 262k | 2026-06-12 | – |
| 13 | NewKimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed | – | $8.00 | – | – | 1.0M | 2026-10-23 | – |
Latest news
- Moonshot curbs hacking ability in new Kimi model as fears grow over AI-powered cyberattacksReuters · 24 Oct 2026
- Moonshot Debuts First AI Upgrade Since Its Own DeepSeek MomentBloomberg.com · 23 Oct 2026
- Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parametersSiliconANGLE · 24 Oct 2026
- Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, First Model in New K3.1 SeriesUnite.AI · 23 Oct 2026
- China's Moonshot AI to operate in Singapore, jobs post showsReuters · 21 Oct 2026
- Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, Plans Weight Release Before Nov. 4TOKENPOST · 24 Oct 2026
- Moonshot AI is worth $50 billion and eyes a Hong Kong IPOPasquale Pillitteri · 24 Oct 2026
- China’s Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro modelTech in Asia · 24 Oct 2026