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Kimi (Moonshot AI)

Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based AI lab that develops the Kimi family of long-context multilingual large language models. The consumer assistant is available at kimi.com (and kimi.ai); the developer platform at platform.moonshot.cn (also platform.kimi.com / platform.kimi.ai) exposes an OpenAI-compatible REST API for chat completions, embeddings, file management, fine-tuning, and model listing. Kimi models advertise very long context windows (8K, 32K, 128K, with newer K2.x models pushing toward 256K) and the platform offers multimodal text, image, and video inputs on the flagship Kimi K2.x line. Open-source weights for prior Kimi releases live under the MoonshotAI GitHub organization.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Kimi (Moonshot AI) the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Kimi (Moonshot AI) scores 36.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 36.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Access Clarity 5.8 / 20
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Kimi (Moonshot AI) Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Kimi (Moonshot AI)

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kimi (Moonshot AI). For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 13

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Kimi Embeddings API

OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint that returns vector representations of input text for semantic search, clustering, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows.

Kimi Files API

File management endpoint for uploading documents that can be referenced from chat completions (for example, long-document Q&A and the file_id-based context attachment pattern).

Kimi Fine-Tuning API

Fine-tuning jobs endpoint for customizing Moonshot base models on customer-supplied training data. Mirrors the OpenAI fine-tuning surface.

Kimi Models API

Lists models available to the authenticated account and exposes per-model metadata (context window, modality support, pricing tier).

Kimi Tokenizer API

Helper endpoint exposed by the Moonshot platform for counting tokens against a given model's tokenizer prior to submission, useful for managing long-context budgets.

Kimi Assistant (kimi.com)

Consumer-facing AI assistant at kimi.com (also kimi.ai) powered by the Kimi models. Supports long-document upload, web search grounding, and tool use through a chat UI.

Moonshot Open-Weights Releases

Open-weight Kimi model releases (for example prior Kimi K1 / K2 checkpoints) published under the MoonshotAI GitHub organization for research and self-hosted use.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Batch API

The Batch API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 3 operation(s) for batch.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Billing API

The Billing API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 1 operation(s) for billing.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Chat API

The Chat API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 1 operation(s) for chat.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Files API

The Files API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 3 operation(s) for files.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Models API

The Models API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 1 operation(s) for models.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Utilities API

The Utilities API from Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 1 operation(s) for utilities.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Billing API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Utilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kimi Moonshot Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) Streaming Chat Completions API

AsyncAPI definition for Moonshot AI's Kimi `POST /v1/chat/completions` streaming response channel. Moonshot's chat completions surface is OpenAI-compatible. When the request bod...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kimi Moonshot Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kimi Moonshot Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Kimi Moonshot Agentic Access

13 operations · 6 acting

13 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kimi (Moonshot AI) — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Kimi (Moonshot AI), published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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