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Kimi models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting

Kimi emphasizes very long context, frontier-scale sparse models and agentic reasoning, with separate general and code tracks.

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Overview and history

Kimi is an official Moonshot AI model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. Kimi emphasizes very long context, frontier-scale sparse models and agentic reasoning, with separate general and code tracks. Current public releases are grouped by the General, Code tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.

FusionPointAI currently tracks 16 certified public Kimi releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.

Long-context reasoning
Sparse MoE scale
Agentic and coding workflows

Architecture and model range

The verified public range spans 1000B to 2800B total parameters and context windows up to 1,048,576 tokens. Each release states whether it is dense or mixture-of-experts and records active parameters separately when the official source publishes them.

Public releases16
Model tracks2
Current generationKimi K3
Last verified2026-09-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Generations, tracks and variants

General

Kimi K2.5

Recent generation 3 sibling variants
Kimi K2.5

1,000.0B parameters · 262,144 context

Multimodal · MoE KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Kimi-K2.5

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Base Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi-K2.5-NVFP4

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Quantization Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-5-thinking-eagle3

Recent generation
Kimi-K2.5-Thinking-Eagle3

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Fine-tune Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-6-eagle3

Recent generation
Kimi-K2.6-Eagle3

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Fine-tune Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-6-dflash

Recent generation
Kimi-K2.6-DFlash

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Fine-tune Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-6

Recent generation 3 sibling variants
Kimi-K2.6

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Base Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi-K2.6-NVFP4

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Quantization Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi K2.6

1,000.0B parameters · 262,144 context

Multimodal · MoE KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration

kimi-k3

Current generation 3 sibling variants
Kimi-K3

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Base Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi-K3-NVFP4

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Quantization Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi K3

2,800.0B parameters · 1,048,576 context

Flagship · MoE KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration

Code

kimi-k2-7-code-dflash

Recent generation
Kimi-K2.7-Code-DFlash

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Fine-tune Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-7-code

Recent generation
Kimi-K2.7-Code-NVFP4

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Quantization Unknown / Not Recommendable

kimi-k2-7

Current generation 2 sibling variants
Kimi-K2.7-Code

The manufacturer has not published this information. parameters · N/A / Not directly comparable context

Base Unknown / Not Recommendable
Kimi K2.7 Code

1,000.0B parameters · 262,144 context

Code · MoE KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration

Deployment ecosystem

Choose a specific Kimi release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations, calculates resident memory from total model weights, then distinguishes globally compatible GPUs from currently rentable inventory.

Validate the exact checkpoint license, runtime version, precision kernel, context length, concurrency and multi-GPU topology. Active MoE parameters affect compute, but resident model memory continues to use total stored weights.

Common use cases

Repository-scale coding
Long document analysis
Tool-using agents

License overview

Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.

Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.

Release timeline

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k25

Source details

Official source

Source revision: c61f96cf00bb2325f4209bab6177fb36de10466aa3d26764c24f0a72a2c87c97

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k25-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 5eafa29878a891f6ba15bad1f743e6595ac83185e67264b6b072406280ef6116

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k26-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: c4e91d3540e197aaf92d1b3cf76c81382d0121a80899e997bfa15f99ab1a9e2d

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k26

Source details

Official source

Source revision: b688debf49c88295baa334962e7d26f68fe6d2dbd5f24d6570edf4087bf17a98

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k26-eagle3

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 968dc960a9d21fad17ff9a5db551bfedfb823141d44913e9e1529343ad3f3ba7

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k25-thinking-eagle3

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 5c4ef28632721d974248e62e5828fb9a0d7137d2195270414e638107bb2dca1a

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k27-code

Source details

Official source

Source revision: db1fe0f520e58e16be28289977d30a0032f8876f1af1f12d76521a04b9b3994d

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k27-code-nvfp4

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Official source

Source revision: 703e580df7ac59aaf5ad64edc60f8d7e26a0af93157039ee70dc69aac83e399b

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k27-code-dflash

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 2def9b58cbab459090870e4c06a803ac5752109bc8e90e7dd5304c1f958ac460

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k26-dflash

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 89e3a67734ed30802809d8f426810822a86bce88c24c224c29fcb960d2413c40

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k3-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 495fa6b4e71813bde549082c63677b3d898c0b6759643a08723d0c4fa585a983

moonshot/kimi/kimi-kimi-k3

Source details

Official source

Source revision: fe0f8990e92eebc3dbb58cdb565f1a9cb079b3034ccca4ec02640f60673eb85d

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k3

Source details

Official source

Source revision: a2873a31d078c3b0a6dca6eca78e737dda9f3349d85ad04bc5aef21e2e002742

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k2-7-code

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 7ad5880f67e34c28afb714c0f029bd2a3dcf71089652ee07244c23798ca08909

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k2-6

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 84990c57d31a7960ad2bf34d16921337851b19ca2380fa98b971aac3e31dbf94

moonshot/kimi/kimi-k2-5

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 84b793f0055a3ae3b0c7d86ac055b0e8dc190c6e6d548836d00086e96e683be3

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 @ 2026-09-02T12:12:54Z

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 2026-09-02T12:12:54Z

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code @ 2026-06-15T12:19:58Z

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 2026-06-15T12:19:58Z

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 @ 2026-05-21T03:07:28Z

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 2026-05-21T03:07:28Z

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 @ 2026-04-30T12:20:44Z

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 2026-04-30T12:20:44Z

Frequently asked questions

Which Kimi release is current?

Current releases are Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi-K3, Kimi-K2.7-Code, evaluated within their respective tracks.

Can Kimi be self-hosted?

Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.

Which GPU should run Kimi?

GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-03