API PRICES
kimi-k2-instruct
Provider prices, cheapest first
kimi-k2-instruct official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: officesai.top, group "Basic entry-level channel [machine translation] (on site: 基础普及通道)" 1.8 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 9 sites have comparable prices; 9 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 1.8 · median 4.1 · highest 7 · 6 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Relay CNY credit prices · Lowest 2.45 · median 4.2 · highest 5.95 · 2 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 1.8 · median 4.1 · highest 7 (6 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
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| 01 | officesai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | Basic entry-level channel [machine translation]Group on site: 基础普及通道 Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct Offices AI's basic channel, gathering 100 + regular models [machine translation]Original: Offices AI 的基础款通道，里面集中了 100 +普通模型 Operator pending verification | 0.9 | 4.5 | — | 1.8Median price ÷ this price: 2.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | zen-ai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | Open source [machine translation]Group on site: 开源 Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct Major Chinese open-source models, 40% of official price, 0.4 yuan per 1 dao (US dollar) [machine translation]Original: 国内主流开源模型, 官方4折, 0.4元1刀 Operator pending verification | 1.6 | 6.4 | — | 2.8Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | api.eido.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 2.4 | 9.6 | — | 4.2Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | api.hopeai.ccAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 4 | 4 | — | 4Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | minimax Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct minimax Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.6× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | xinsuanai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | default Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.6× | Full prices and sources |
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| — | ioll.pp.uaAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | Chat only, meow [machine translation]Group on site: 聊天专属喵 Name on site: kimi-k2-instruct 站点写明：不支持工具调用，仅限聊天 Chat only, meow; no tool calling, meow [machine translation]Original: 只能聊天喵 不支持工具调用喵 Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.2755 | 1.323 | — | 0.53737Median price ÷ this price: 7.6× | Full prices and sources |
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 34 recorded prices; 14 can be compared directly. Not comparable yet: ratio looks unset 13, price not parsed yet 5, display unit not confirmed 2
10 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for kimi-k2-instruct?
officesai.top, group "基础普及通道 (Basic entry-level channel)", 1.8 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 9 sites have comparable prices.
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