Key facts
- Provider
- Moonshot Kimi
- Model family
- Kimi-Dev
- Release date
- June 17, 2025
- Status
- Current
- Access
- open weights
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- Not reported
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning
Kimi-Dev-72B pricing
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Moonshot Kimi's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Kimi-Dev-72B yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Strengths, cautions and best uses
Strengths
- Kimi-Dev-72B records open-weight access for text inputs
Cautions
- Hosted token price and infrastructure cost are not represented; measure deployment and operating cost directly
Best for
- Private coding and repository evaluation
Alternatives to Kimi-Dev-72B
The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
Kimi K2 Base
Kimi K2 Instruct
GPT-4.1
- From OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini
- From OpenAI
Kimi-Dev-72B FAQ
Is Kimi-Dev-72B open source or API only?
Kimi-Dev-72B is released as open weights that you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to Kimi-Dev-72B?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are Kimi K2 Base, Kimi K2 Instruct, GPT-4.1 (from OpenAI) and GPT-4.1 mini (from OpenAI).
Sources
- Kimi-Dev · Moonshot AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Kimi-Dev-72B Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/kimi-dev-72b
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Production evaluation
Deciding whether Kimi-Dev-72B fits your workload?
Public benchmarks narrow the shortlist. We test the finalists on your own tasks, data and cost limits, then build the routing and review controls to run the winner in production.
- Evaluation cases and acceptance thresholds tied to real work
- Model routing, fallbacks and cost controls