Kimi K2 (Moonshot AI) is the value pick. At roughly half the per-token cost of Gemini and a third of Claude, with a credible 128K context window, it's the model we route routine workloads to.
Quality on English-language reasoning is a tier below the frontier but generally usable. Chinese-language quality is excellent.
For SEO content generation, basic summarization, and high-volume batch work, Kimi K2 is the cost-optimized default. For complex reasoning, escalate to Claude or GPT-5.
Verdict: the price-to-performance value champion. 8.4/10.