Moonshot AI

Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weights Kimi K2 / K3 mixture-of-experts models with strong agentic scores.

Release timeline

Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.

Over the last two years Moonshot AI shipped 6 distinct models, one every 82 days on median. The latest arrived on 16 Jul 2026.

If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 3 Sept 2026 and 7 Nov 2026.

An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.

Fastest ranked model: Kimi K2 Thinking at 119 tok/s.

Every Moonshot AI model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.

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1	Kimi K3Moonshot AIopen ↗	66.5±3	$6.00	37	58 s	1.0M	2026-07-16	2026-09-05
2	Kimi K2.6Moonshot AIopen ↗	60.6±4	$1.71	52	89 s	262k	2026-04-20	2026-09-08
3	Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AIopen ↗	56.2±4	$1.71	63	38 s	262k	2026-06-12	2026-09-08
4	Kimi K2.5Moonshot AIopen ↗	56.1±3	$1.20	37	1.64 s	262k	2026-01-27	2026-02-13 · stale
5	Kimi K2 5 InstantMoonshot AI	55.9±6	–	–	–	–	–	2026-09-08
6	Kimi K2thinkingMoonshot AI	55.0±7	$2.86	–	–	262k	2025-11-06	2026-09-08
7	Kimi K2 ThinkingthinkingMoonshot AIopen ↗	52.8±4	$1.07	119	18 s	262k	2025-11-06	2026-09-01
8	Kimi K2Moonshot AIopen ↗	48.8±3	$1.07	40	1.48 s	262k	2025-07-11	2026-09-02
9	Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeedMoonshot AIopen	–	$3.42	–	–	262k	2026-06-12	–