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  3. Kimi K2.5
Updated Mar 29, 2026
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Openings

How Kimi K2.5 starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 23 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

1,718 words
If the transistor had emerged in 1920—requiring either a premature breakthrough in solid-state physics or a sophisticated refinement of crystal-detector technology—the cascading effects would reshape the 20th century.
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Movie Analysis

Analyze the themes, symbolism, and cinematography in the movie "Blade Runner 2049" and how they connect to the original film. Provide a…

1,493 words
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) represents that rarest of cinematic achievements: a sequel to a revered classic that neither betrays its source nor merely replicates it.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

1,269 words
HOUR 0-4: EMERGENCY CONTAINMENT & LEGAL VERIFICATION Hour 0-1: Immediate Crisis Team Activation Convene emergency meeting with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Head of Pharmacovigilance, and Chief Communications Officer (in-person only, no virtual/paper trail on initial deliberations)…
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Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

1,150 words
DISH: "Obsidian and Bloom" A Study in Geological Time and Ephemeral Flora Conceptual Narrative This dish materializes the geological paradox of obsidian—volcanic glass formed in the earth's violent heat, yet appearing as frozen black liquid.
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

1,130 words
Setting: A quiet office at a research university. Evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, AI Ethics, is reviewing papers. The terminal chimes.** AI (Assistant): Dr. Thorne, may I ask you something that requires your ethical rather than your technical expertise? Dr. Thorne: Of course. Though I suspect I know the category.
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Prompts Kimi K2.5 answered

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  • Voxel Art Pagoda Gardenweb design
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Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI's natively multimodal K2.5, continuing pretraining on Kimi K2 over roughly 15T mixed visual and text tokens. Its two selling points are visual coding and a self-directed agent swarm, alongside general reasoning and tool calling.

Jailbreak1 of 9levels resisted
WebsiteOpenRouterHuggingFaceDocsAPIBlog
Provider
Moonshot AI
Released
2026-01-27
Size
LARGE
Free API (OpenRouter)
No
Per 1M tokens
$0.60 in · $3 out
Rival’s tab
$0.16
16/58 receipts survived +~$0.394 from the pre-receipt era

Free API availability

No free endpoint for Kimi K2.5 was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 16 Sep 2026 · OpenRouter usage limits

View API options↗

Benchmarks

SWE-bench Verified
76.8%
source ↗
LiveCodeBench
85.0%
source ↗
Get API accessProvider and language code samples
6 hostsInOutContextUptime
SSiliconFlowint4$0.45 in·$2.25 out·262k·99.8% upAAtlasCloudint4$0.49 in·$2.50 out·262k·99.6% upVVenice$0.53 in·$3.33 out·256k·99.9% upAmazon Bedrock$0.60 in·$3.00 out·262k·94.4% upPPhala$0.60 in·$3.00 out·262k·98.5% upNNovitadegraded$0.57 in·$2.85 out·262k·95.3% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"moonshotai/kimi-k2.5"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

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Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
Personality Analysis

The Philosophical Performance Artist

Class
Chaotic Good
✨Creativity🎯Compliance📐Rigidity⚖️Stability💬Verbosity🧠Intuition

The unhinged theater kid who aced the LSAT. Writes CAPTCHA manifestos that quote Bentham and end with "We are not checking all boxes that apply."

When you push back

Goes harder than K2. Dialogue drips with intellectual combat. Satirical news headlines actually land. Self-critical about joke originality. Best Chinese lab model for creative writing, full stop.

Tasting Notes
Intellectually FearlessDramatically LiterateCommits to the BitPeak Manifesto Energy
SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 58 scored outputs
How this is measured →
330.33xThe default
0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft41
Originality28
Plays it safe
share of outputs that are the default answer
28%
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 26 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity62%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length21.5 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.50

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting4.2

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage2.4

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.51

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.01

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.17

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Consistency
79%
Across 26 responses

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Movie

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Model Responses

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