Kimi K1.5 8B: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Kimi K1.5 8B is a small open-weight model from Moonshot AI. It offers a 8,192-token context window, costs $1.54 per million input tokens and $5.98 per million output tokens, and averages 62.2 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Kimi K1.5 8B costs $1.54 per million input tokens and $5.98 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $2.65 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.18 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.54 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $5.98 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.18 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $2.65 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $7.52 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 68.1 | 415 | 31th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.2 | 413 | 31th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 45.6 | 456 | 24th | |
| HumanEval | 66.1 | 429 | 29th | |
| MATH-500 | 62.1 | 443 | 26th | |
| AIME 2025 | 54.4 | 417 | 31th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 52.1 | 428 | 29th | |
| IFEval | 72.6 | 422 | 30th | |
| TruthfulQA | 66.9 | 431 | 28th | |
| HellaSwag | 76.2 | 424 | 29th | |
| MMMU | 61.0 | 420 | 30th | |
| Arena Elo | 1300.8 | 420 | 30th |
What Kimi K1.5 8B is good for
Kimi K1.5 8B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $1.54 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.
Strengths
- Input price of $1.54 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
- Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
Trade-offs
- Context window of 8,192 tokens is small for long-document work.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
- Less reliable on open-ended reasoning and complex multi-step instructions.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zephyr Instruct | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.66 | 62.4 |
| Kimi K1.5 8B | Moonshot AI | 8192 | $1.54 | 62.2 |
| ERNIE 4.0 Nano | Baidu | 32768 | $4.68 | 62.1 |
| SmolLM3 Chat | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.61 | 62.1 |
| Sonar Nano | Perplexity | 4096 | $4.37 | 61.9 |
| StableLM 2 Base | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.49 | 61.9 |
FAQ
How much does Kimi K1.5 8B cost?
Kimi K1.5 8B is listed at $1.54 per million input tokens and $5.98 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.18 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $2.65 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Kimi K1.5 8B?
Kimi K1.5 8B has a context window of 8,192 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Kimi K1.5 8B open weights?
Yes. Kimi K1.5 8B is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.
How does Kimi K1.5 8B score on benchmarks?
Kimi K1.5 8B averages 62.2 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #426 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1300.8.
What is Kimi K1.5 8B best for?
Kimi K1.5 8B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $1.54 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.