Kimi Models
Every Kimi language model, explained in plain English. Moonshot's Kimi models — open-weight agentic models with very long context windows.
What are the Kimi models?
Moonshot AI releases new AI models regularly, and the announcements are usually written for engineers. We explain each model in language anyone can follow: what it does well, what it costs, what it can handle, and how it compares to the one before it.
Models, newest first
- Kimi-K3 2026-06-13 Kimi-K3 explained →
- Kimi-K2.7-Code 2026-06-11 Kimi-K2.7-Code explained →
- Kimi-K2.6 2026-04-14 Kimi-K2.6 explained →
- Kimi-K2.5 2026-01-01 Kimi-K2.5 explained →
- Kimi-K2-Thinking 2025-11-04 Kimi-K2-Thinking explained →
- Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct 2025-10-30 Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct explained →
- Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 2025-09-03 Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 explained →
- Kimi-K2-Instruct 2025-07-11 Kimi-K2-Instruct explained →
- Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 2025-06-21 Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 explained →
- Kimi-Dev-72B 2025-06-16 Kimi-Dev-72B explained →
- Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct 2025-04-25 Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct explained →
- Kimi-Audio-7B 2025-04-25 Kimi-Audio-7B explained →
- Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct 2025-04-09 Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct explained →
- Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking 2025-04-09 Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking explained →
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