# Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

> Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is an open-weight language model from Moonshot AI, released on 6 Nov 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 262K-token context window and up to 64K output tokens per response. Moonshot AI has deprecated this model.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo
Last verified: 22 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Moonshot AI
- **Release date:** 6 Nov 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Status:** Deprecated (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Context window:** 262K (262,000 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Max output:** 64K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Knowledge cutoff:** Aug 2024 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Input:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/zenmux/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo.toml)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## FAQ

### What is the context window of Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has a context window of 262,000 tokens (262K) and can generate up to 64,000 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo open source?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is an open-weight model. Check the license terms before commercial use.

### When was Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo released?

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo on 6 Nov 2025, according to models.dev.

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