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Kimi K2 0711

By MoonshotAI. 1.03 trillion parameters, a context window of 131,072 tokens and the licence other.

Facts

Released
2025-07-11 the day the repository was first published on Hugging Face Hugging Face, read
Licence
other the licence the model card declares Hugging Face, read
Open weights
Yes the weights are published in this Hugging Face repository Hugging Face, read
Parameters
1.03 trillion counted from the safetensors weight files Hugging Face, read
Active parameters
32.9 billion estimate estimated from the expert counts and sizes in the configuration model configuration, read
Knowledge cutoff
2024-12-31 the knowledge cutoff OpenRouter lists OpenRouter, read
Context window
  • 131,072 tokens the maximum position embeddings in the model configuration model configuration, read
  • 131,072 tokens the context length OpenRouter lists OpenRouter, read
Longest output
  • 98,304 tokens the largest output OpenRouter's first provider allows OpenRouter, read
Tool calling
  • Yes OpenRouter lists tools among the supported parameters OpenRouter, read
Structured output
  • No OpenRouter lists no structured output parameter OpenRouter, read
Reasoning controls
Unknown
Inputs and outputs
text in, text out Hugging Face, read
Good for
No source names a use.

Prices

Prices in US dollars per million tokens, as each source lists them
ProviderInputOutputContextAs ofSource
NanoGPT direct0.400 USD1.80 USD256,000 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read
Jiekou.AI direct0.570 USD2.30 USD131,072models.dev, read
Novita through OpenRouter0.570 USD2.30 USD131,072OpenRouter endpoints, read
NovitaAI direct0.570 USD2.30 USD131,072 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read
Hugging Face direct1.00 USD3.00 USD131,072 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read

Run it on your own hardware

Weights are the sizes of the files a source lists, or an estimate from the parameter count where none does. Memory is an estimate: weights plus KV cache plus 512 MiB and 5 percent of the weights for runtime buffers. Check it against your hardware.

QuantizationWeightsMemory at 8,192 tokensMemory at 32,768 tokens
UD-TQ1_0227 GiB239 GiB241 GiB
UD-IQ1_S261 GiB275 GiB277 GiB
UD-IQ1_M283 GiB299 GiB300 GiB
UD-IQ2_XXS306 GiB323 GiB324 GiB
UD-IQ2_M323 GiB340 GiB342 GiB
Q2_K348 GiB366 GiB368 GiB
Q2_K_L348 GiB366 GiB368 GiB
UD-Q2_K_XL356 GiB374 GiB376 GiB
UD-IQ3_XXS388 GiB408 GiB410 GiB
Q3_K_S412 GiB434 GiB435 GiB
UD-Q3_K_XL421 GiB443 GiB445 GiB
Q3_K_M456 GiB480 GiB481 GiB
IQ4_XS509 GiB535 GiB537 GiB
IQ4_NL539 GiB567 GiB568 GiB
Q4_0541 GiB569 GiB570 GiB
Q4_K_S543 GiB571 GiB573 GiB
UD-Q4_K_XL547 GiB575 GiB577 GiB
Q4_K_M578 GiB608 GiB610 GiB
Q4_1598 GiB629 GiB631 GiB
Q5_K_S658 GiB692 GiB694 GiB
Q5_K_M678 GiB713 GiB715 GiB
UD-Q5_K_XL680 GiB715 GiB717 GiB
Q6_K785 GiB825 GiB827 GiB
UD-Q6_K_XL819 GiB861 GiB862 GiB
Q8_01,016 GiB1,068 GiB1,070 GiB
UD-Q8_K_XL1,108 GiB1,165 GiB1,166 GiB
BF161,912 GiB2,009 GiB2,010 GiB

Start it with a local runtime

  • Ollama
    ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_0
  • LM Studio
    lms get unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF
    lms server start
  • llama.cpp server
    llama-server -hf unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja
  • vLLM
    vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
  • SGLang
    sglang serve --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct --port 30000

Use it from your harness

Set up for Hugging Face with the model moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct. Each endpoint page has the same setup for its own address.

OpenCode

Put this in opencode.json in your project folder:

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "provider": {
    "huggingface": {
      "npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
      "name": "Hugging Face",
      "options": {
        "baseURL": "https://router.huggingface.co/v1",
        "apiKey": "{env:HF_TOKEN}"
      },
      "models": {
        "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct": {
          "name": "Kimi K2 0711",
          "limit": {
            "context": 131072,
            "output": 98304
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
  • OpenCode reads any OpenAI-compatible address through the @ai-sdk/openai-compatible package, and an address that speaks the Responses API through @ai-sdk/openai.

From OpenCode documentation, read .

Pi

Put this in ~/.pi/agent/models.json:

{
  "providers": {
    "huggingface": {
      "baseUrl": "https://router.huggingface.co/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "$HF_TOKEN",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
  • The apiKey field can name an environment variable as $NAME.

From Pi documentation, read .

Codex

Codex speaks only the Responses API, and Hugging Face documents no Responses address. A gateway that offers one can sit in between.

  • Codex speaks the Responses API only: responses is the one supported wire API of a custom provider. Ollama and LM Studio are built in and start with --oss.

From Codex documentation, read .

Claude Code

Claude Code sends Anthropic Messages requests, and Hugging Face documents no such address. A gateway that translates to that API can sit in between.

  • Claude Code sends Anthropic Messages requests to ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL. Anthropic says it does not support routing Claude Code to models other than Claude through any gateway, so some features may not work with another model.

From Claude Code documentation, read .

Other ways to reach it

  • Jiekou.AI, model moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct
  • NanoGPT, model moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct
  • NovitaAI, model moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct
  • OpenRouter, model moonshotai/kimi-k2
  • Ollama, model hf.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_0

Published results

These are results other people published. Baltor did not run them and does not rank models by them.