Kimi K2 TPS calculator
Each card below is assessed against this model at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from the card's memory bandwidth and the size of the model once compressed.
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Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Moonshot
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- China
- Published
- 11 July 2025
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language
- Task
- Language modeling/generation, Code generation, Question answering, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Table tasks
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Parameters
- 1T
- Training data
- 15,500,000,000,000 tokens
- Batch size
- 67,000,000
MoE with 1T total parameters and 32B parameters active per forward pass
"Kimi K2 was pre-trained on 15.5T tokens"
"global batch size was held at 67M token"
Training compute
The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.
- Training compute
- 3 × 10²⁴ FLOP
- How it was established
- Operation counting
6 FLOP / parameter / token * 32 * 10^9 activated parameters * 15.5 * 10^12 tokens = 2.976e+24 FLOP
The training run
What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.
- Training hardware
- NVIDIA H800 SXM5
Availability
Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.
- Weights
- Open — downloadable
- Model access
- Open weights (restricted use)
- Training code
- Unreleased
- Hugging Face
- moonshotai
Modified MIT license (separare license is required for entities with 100M+ MAU or $20M+ in annual revenue) for weights and inference code: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2?tab=readme-ov-file#4-deployment API: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs/pricing/chat#%E8%AE%A1%E8%B4%B9%E5%9F%BA%E6%9C%AC%E6%A6%82%E5%BF%B5
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Why it is tracked
- Training cost
- Record confidence
- Confident
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
- Last updated
- 18 December 2025
What the numbers mean
What it takes to run this model
At 1T parameters, Kimi K2 is beyond what any single graphics card holds. Running it means either splitting it across several cards or renting hardware built for the job — 0 of the cards we track can hold it on their own, and all of them are datacentre parts.
Background
Kimi K2 was published by Moonshot, in China, in July 2025. industry is the category the publisher falls under.
It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Code generation, Question answering, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Table tasks.
Published weights mean the model runs on your machine rather than someone else's, which is what makes the hardware question below answerable at all. It is published under the moonshotai organisation on Hugging Face.
What went into building it
Training it took roughly 3 × 10²⁴ FLOP of computation, on NVIDIA H800 SXM5 — a measure of what producing the model cost, not of how fast it answers.
Around 15,500,000,000,000 tokens went into training it.
The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is training cost.
Step by step
How to choose a GPU for Kimi K2
The table above has already assessed every card we hold specifications for against this model. Getting to your answer takes six steps.
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Check what it needs before anything else
The table lists every card that can hold Kimi K2. That figure, not the card's headline performance, is what decides whether it runs.
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Set the context length you will work at
Longer conversations cost memory on top of what the weights need. Move the slider to your real working length before trusting any row for Kimi K2.
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Set a quality floor
The quantisation column varies by card, because a bigger card holds a more accurate copy of Kimi K2. Set a floor to hold the comparison at one level.
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Sort by speed
Sort by speed to see how cards rank for Kimi K2. It will not match a gaming ordering — generation is bound by memory bandwidth.
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Read the fit column last
A tight fit runs Kimi K2 but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation; comfortable has headroom. If you expect to grow the context, buy for comfortable.
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Check the card from the other side
Each card page repeats this sweep for every model we hold. It answers what else the hardware is good for, beyond Kimi K2.
Answers
Kimi K2 — common questions
How accurate are these Kimi K2 speed estimates?
Every figure is derived from memory bandwidth and model size, not benchmarked. That is why each is published as a range such as the range beneath each figure rather than a single number.
Is Kimi K2 open source?
Its weights are published, so Kimi K2 can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.
How many parameters does Kimi K2 have?
Kimi K2 has 1T parameters. MoE with 1T total parameters and 32B parameters active per forward pass. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.
Who created Kimi K2?
Kimi K2 was published by Moonshot, based in China, categorised as industry.
When was Kimi K2 released?
Kimi K2 was published in July 2025.
What is Kimi K2 used for?
Kimi K2 works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Code generation, Question answering, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Table tasks. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
Where can I download Kimi K2?
Its weights are published under the moonshotai organisation on Hugging Face. We do not host model files — this site calculates what hardware is needed to run them.
How much compute was used to train Kimi K2?
Around 3 × 10²⁴ FLOP, on NVIDIA H800 SXM5. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.
Can I run Kimi K2 if it does not fit in my GPU?
Partly. Layers that do not fit sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded Kimi K2 is rarely worth using — the nearest miss we calculate is short by 274.0 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is on the card.
Would two GPUs run Kimi K2 faster?
Capacity adds across cards; throughput does not. Since 0 of the cards we track already hold Kimi K2 on their own, a second card is rarely the answer here.
Why does the quantisation differ between cards for Kimi K2?
Each card is shown running the least-compressed copy it can hold, and Kimi K2 appears at 1 different compression levels across the cards that fit it. Bigger cards get the more accurate version.
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Looking at it from the other side?
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