Maker of Kimi models for long-context and coding workflows. MoonshotAI’s coding models on Kilo Code include Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi K2.5, and Kimi K2.6. Use them across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and the Kilo CLI — with pay-as-you-go pricing and no markup over the underlying provider rates.
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Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at...
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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code is a coding-focused model in Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 family, built to complete end-to-end programming tasks reliably over long contexts. It uses a native multimodal mixture-of-experts...
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Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...
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Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...
MoonshotAI is best known for Kimi, a model family built around long-context reasoning and document-heavy workflows. Its Kimi coding releases are especially recognizable for combining very large context windows with pragmatic software-engineering ability, making them useful for repository-wide analysis and agent tasks.
Pay-as-you-go, no markup over the underlying provider rates. Cheapest first.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Coding index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 | $0.600 | $3.00 | 262K | — |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | $0.800 | $3.40 | 262K | — |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K | 60.8 |
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1049K | 76.2 |
Three ways: hosted in Kilo, locally on your hardware, or through your own provider keys.
The fastest path: install Kilo Code, sign in, pick moonshotai from the model picker. No API keys, no markup. Works in VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and the Kilo CLI.
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MoonshotAI’s flagship is among the strongest coding models on the Kilo Code leaderboard, ranked by Code, Plan, Ask, Debug, and Review usage.
VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, RubyMine, Android Studio), and the Kilo CLI / terminal.
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The newest Kimi Code or Kimi K-series release with the best coding index is the strongest MoonshotAI option for software engineering in Kilo Code.
MoonshotAI Kimi models work across VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, JetBrains IDEs, and the Kilo CLI.
MoonshotAI model pricing depends on the hosted provider. Kilo Code shows current input and output token rates with no markup.
Mixed. Some Kimi releases have open weights, while provider-hosted variants may be API-only.
Kimi Code variants are tuned for software engineering, while general Kimi releases prioritize broad reasoning and long-context comprehension.
MoonshotAI Kimi models work across VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, JetBrains IDEs, and the Kilo CLI.
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