Kimi K2 Thinking vs GPT Audio Mini

Kimi K2 Thinking at $0.690 in and $2.88 out and GPT Audio Mini at $0.690 in and $2.76 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

0.57¢

for a client proposal

$0.690 in · $2.88 out / 1M

262K context · released November 2025

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GPT Audio Mini

OpenAI

0.57¢

for a client proposal

$0.690 in · $2.76 out / 1M

128K context · released 7 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Cheapest output: GPT Audio Mini at $2.76 per million tokens.
Largest context: Kimi K2 Thinking at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Kimi K2 Thinking

0.28¢

GPT Audio Mini

0.28¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Kimi K2 Thinking

0.57¢

GPT Audio Mini

0.57¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Kimi K2 Thinking

$0.12

GPT Audio Mini

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Kimi K2 Thinking

2.7¢

GPT Audio Mini

2.7¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Kimi K2 Thinking

$0.18

GPT Audio Mini

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Kimi K2 Thinking

GPT Audio Mini

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Pricing

Kimi K2 Thinking

GPT Audio Mini

Input / 1M tokens

$0.690

Output / 1M tokens

$2.88

$2.76

Cached input / 1M

$0.172

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Specs

Kimi K2 Thinking

GPT Audio Mini

Provider

Moonshot AI

OpenAI

Released

November 2025

7 months ago

Context window

262K

128K

Max output

100K

16K

Input

Text

Text and Audio

Output

Text

Text and Audio

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

0.28¢

for this task

49% input · 51% output

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GPT Audio Mini

OpenAI

0.28¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.56¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 896 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Kimi K2 Thinking has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, GPT Audio Mini is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.57¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Kimi K2 Thinking shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Kimi K2 Thinking pricing →GPT Audio Mini pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 Thinking or GPT Audio Mini?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT Audio Mini at 0.57¢; Kimi K2 Thinking at 0.57¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Kimi K2 Thinking — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Kimi K2 Thinking and GPT Audio Mini side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.1¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.