MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0905 vs unbiased Pareto 26.10
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Kimi K2 0905 is 1.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Pareto 26.10 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
- Pareto 26.10 is the newer model (released 2026-10-15).
| Kimi K2 0905 | Pareto 26.10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | MoonshotAI | unbiased |
| Released | 2025-09-04 | 2026-10-15 |
| Input / 1M | $0.60 | $0.80 |
| Output / 1M | $2.50 | $3.20 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.03 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.07 | $1.40 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 98K | 131K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.50 | $3.20 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Kimi K2 0905
$73.50 per month$2.45 per day
Pareto 26.10
$96.00 per month$3.20 per day
Kimi K2 0905 saves $22.50 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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