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Kimi K2.7 Code

Value coding specialist — 1T MoE agentic coder at budget prices.

88
Coding
68
Writing
70
Research
34
Images
85
Value
70
Long Context
Use this when

Cost-efficient agentic coding

Skip this if

Your agent needs big-repo context (256K cap) or frontier general reasoning.

Pricing
$0.95/1M in
$4.00/1M out
→0%since Aug 2026
Context
256k tokens
Speed
Fast

Kimi K2.7 Codespecs & pricing

Verified Sep 4, 2026 against the AI Gateway catalog
Input price
$0.95 / 1M tokens
Output price
$4.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input(prompt-cache read)
$0.16 / 1M tokens
Context window
256k tokens
Max output
33k tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Released
Jun 12, 2026
Input modalities
Text, Image, PDF, Video
Output modalities
Text
Reasoning mode
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Gateway model ID
moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code

Compare every model's knowledge cutoff, max output, and context window.

Model ID kimi-k2.7-code; weights on Hugging Face June 12, 2026. Kimi Code membership from $19/mo.

How to access
API
$0.95/1M input tokens
Subscription = chat interface. API = build with it. Compare all subscription plans
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Best overall
GPT-6 Astra
Cheaper option
DeepSeek V4-Pro
Faster option
Codestral 25.01

Strengths

+21.8% over Kimi K2.6 on Kimi Code Bench v2 while using roughly 30% fewer thinking tokens

Only 32B active params per token — fast and cheap to serve at $0.95/$4.00 per 1M (cache hits $0.19)

Modified MIT license with weights on Hugging Face; pairs with the Kimi Code terminal CLI

Weaknesses

256K context is a quarter of what 2026 rivals offer for large-repo agent work

Headline gains are on Moonshot's own in-house benchmark; general reasoning lags the Western frontier

Real-world use cases

What people actually use Kimi K2.7 Code for.

Agentic coding with the Kimi Code terminal CLI at $0.95/1M input

High-volume code review and refactoring where thinking-token burn matters (~30% fewer than K2.6)

Self-hosted coding infra under a modified MIT license

How Kimi K2.7 Code compares

The nearest models people weigh against it, and what actually separates them.

vs Codestral 25.01 — Against Codestral 25.01 (Mistral), Kimi K2.7 Code costs about 27% more per token and answers slower. Codestral 25.01 is the one to check first if the price difference matters more than the ceiling.

vs DeepSeek V4-Flash — Against DeepSeek V4-Flash (DeepSeek), Kimi K2.7 Code costs about 92% more per token and gives up 3.9x on context. DeepSeek V4-Flash is the one to check first if the price difference matters more than the ceiling.

vs DeepSeek V4-Pro — Against DeepSeek V4-Pro (DeepSeek), Kimi K2.7 Code costs about 74% more per token, gives up 3.9x on context and answers faster. DeepSeek V4-Pro is the one to check first if the price difference matters more than the ceiling.

Price History

Kimi K2.7 Code pricing over time

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$1.03$0.988$0.950$0.912$0.874Aug 7Aug 14Aug 22Sep 5Sep 13Sep 20

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MistralBudget

Codestral 25.01

Coding-specialist model designed for fast engineering assistance at a budget-conscious price point.

Verdict
Best budget-focused coding specialist for high-volume developer teams.
Quality score
57%
Pricing
$0.90/1M in
$2.70/1M out
Speed
Very fast
5/5 speed
Context
256k tokens
Ideal for teams running thousands of daily coding prompts where premium model costs add up quickly.
Coding specialistBudgetFast
Best for
Affordable high-volume coding support
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DeepSeekBudget

DeepSeek V4-Flash

A 284B-parameter (13B active) MoE workhorse re-post-trained for agentic and coding tasks — beats the V4-Pro preview on every published agent benchmark at ultra-commodity pricing.

Verdict
Best agentic capability per dollar in the directory.
Quality score
76%
Pricing
$0.14/1M in
$0.28/1M out
Speed
Fast
4/5 speed
Context
1M tokens
Official V4-Flash-0731 release July 31, 2026; weights on Hugging Face, API in public beta. Only DeepSeek model supporting the Responses API. DeepSeek has warned of a future price increase.
Open weightsBudgetAgenticUltra cheap1M context
Best for
High-volume agentic coding and tool-use pipelines
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DeepSeekBudget

DeepSeek V4-Pro

DeepSeek's 1.6T-parameter (49B active) MoE flagship with hybrid sparse attention — near-frontier coding and reasoning at roughly a tenth of closed-rival pricing, MIT-licensed open weights.

Verdict
Best open-weights flagship — near-frontier coding at a tenth of the price.
Quality score
82%
Pricing
$0.43/1M in
$0.87/1M out
Speed
Balanced
3/5 speed
Context
1M tokens
Open-weight preview April 24; GA ~July 20, 2026. Off-peak pricing verified on api-docs.deepseek.com; Beijing-business-hours surge doubles it. Legacy deepseek-chat/reasoner endpoints retired July 24, 2026.
Open weightsCodingReasoningBudget1M context
Best for
Frontier-level coding and reasoning on a budget
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FAQ

How much does Kimi K2.7 Code cost?

Kimi K2.7 Code costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens on the API, with cached input at $0.16 per million. A month of 10M input and 2M output tokens runs about $17.50 at list price, before any batch or caching discounts.

What is the context window of Kimi K2.7 Code?

Kimi K2.7 Code has a 256k tokens context window, with up to 33k tokens of output per response. That is the total of prompt plus response the model can hold in one request.

What is the knowledge cutoff of Kimi K2.7 Code?

Kimi K2.7 Code's training data runs through January 2025, and the model was released on June 12, 2026. For anything after that date it needs web search or documents in the prompt.

What is Kimi K2.7 Code best for?

Kimi K2.7 Code is best for cost-efficient agentic coding. It is a strong fit when that workflow matters more than the tradeoffs around budget pricing and fast speed.

When should I avoid Kimi K2.7 Code?

Your agent needs big-repo context (256K cap) or frontier general reasoning.

What is a cheaper alternative to Kimi K2.7 Code?

DeepSeek V4-Pro (DeepSeek) at $0.43/1M/1M input against Kimi K2.7 Code's $0.95/1M/1M — roughly 74% less per token all in. Best open-weights flagship — near-frontier coding at a tenth of the price. Compare it first if Kimi K2.7 Code's pricing is the thing stopping you.

What is a faster alternative to Kimi K2.7 Code?

Codestral 25.01 — very fast against Kimi K2.7 Code's fast, with 256k tokens of context. Worth the swap when response time is what your users notice rather than the last few points of reasoning depth.

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