InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528/vs/moonshotai/kimi-k2
R1 0528 costs from $0.695 per million tokens at a 3:1 input:output mix: the cheapest price. Kimi K2 0711 costs from $1.00, the cheapest of 5 current offers without a flag. A lower price, $0.75, is listed with a flag. Prices checked on and .
Verdict
At these prices, Kimi K2 0711 costs 1.4× as much as R1 0528 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $1.15. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.385, most favourable value of the column | $1.63, most favourable value of the column | at DeepInfra | $47.48, most favourable value of the columnat Featherless | 18 | 13 | 131k | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $1.08. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.40 | $1.80 | $0.75, most favourable value of the column | $51.00at NanoGPT | 13 | 17, most favourable value of the column | 256k |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 1:07 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.