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Kimi K2 0905

By MoonshotAI. 1.03 trillion parameters, a context window of 262,144 tokens and the licence other.

Facts

Released
2025-09-03 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
  • 262,144 tokens the maximum position embeddings in the model configuration model configuration, read
  • 262,144 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
  • Yes OpenRouter lists structured outputs among the supported parameters 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
Nvidia direct0 USD0 USD262,144 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read
IO.NET direct0.390 USD1.90 USD32,768 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read
NanoGPT direct0.400 USD1.80 USD262,144 older than 30 days; check the providermodels.dev, read
Novita through OpenRouter0.600 USD2.50 USD262,144OpenRouter endpoints, read
Hugging Face direct1.00 USD3.00 USD262,144 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
IQ1_S196 GiB207 GiB209 GiB
IQ1_M205 GiB216 GiB218 GiB
IQ2_XXS229 GiB241 GiB243 GiB
IQ2_XS264 GiB278 GiB280 GiB
IQ2_S265 GiB279 GiB280 GiB
IQ2_M301 GiB317 GiB319 GiB
Q2_K334 GiB352 GiB354 GiB
Q2_K_L335 GiB353 GiB355 GiB
IQ3_XXS377 GiB397 GiB399 GiB
IQ3_XS392 GiB412 GiB414 GiB
Q3_K_S414 GiB436 GiB438 GiB
IQ3_M435 GiB458 GiB460 GiB
Q3_K_M435 GiB458 GiB460 GiB
Q3_K_L454 GiB478 GiB480 GiB
Q3_K_XL455 GiB479 GiB481 GiB
IQ4_XS511 GiB537 GiB539 GiB
IQ4_NL540 GiB568 GiB570 GiB
Q4_0550 GiB578 GiB580 GiB
Q4_K_M581 GiB611 GiB613 GiB
Q4_1599 GiB630 GiB632 GiB
Q5_K_M680 GiB715 GiB717 GiB
Q6_K786 GiB827 GiB828 GiB
Q8_01,016 GiB1,068 GiB1,070 GiB

Start it with a local runtime

  • Ollama
    ollama run hf.co/bartowski/moonshotai_Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-GGUF:Q4_0
  • LM Studio
    lms get bartowski/moonshotai_Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-GGUF
    lms server start
  • llama.cpp server
    llama-server -hf bartowski/moonshotai_Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja
  • vLLM
    vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905
  • SGLang
    sglang serve --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 --port 30000

Use it from your harness

Set up for Hugging Face with the model moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905. 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-0905": {
          "name": "Kimi K2 0905",
          "limit": {
            "context": 262144,
            "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-0905"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}
  • 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

  • IO.NET, model moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905
  • NanoGPT, model moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905
  • Nvidia, model moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905
  • OpenRouter, model moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905
  • Ollama, model hf.co/bartowski/moonshotai_Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905-GGUF:Q4_0

Published results

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