aid: kimi-ai url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kimi-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Kimi (Moonshot AI) kind: company description: Moonshot AI (moonshot.ai) is a Chinese foundation model company whose stated mission is "to seek the optimal conversion from energy to intelligence", best known for Kimi, a family of large language models with long-context capabilities (Kimi K3.1 Pro advertises a 1M-token context window) and the consumer Kimi assistant at kimi.com. The Kimi API Platform (platform.kimi.ai, formerly platform.moonshot.ai; platform.kimi.com in China) exposes OpenAI-compatible chat completion, Anthropic Messages-compatible, files, batch, models, balance, and token-estimation APIs, and the company publishes open-weight Kimi models on GitHub. deliveryModel: model: saas open_source: false commercial: true callable_host: true label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint confidence: high source: - openapi - pricing generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived accessModel: pricing: enterprise onboarding: unknown trial: false try_now: false public: false label: Enterprise confidence: medium source: - plans - authentication - security generated: '2026-09-03' method: derived image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/moonshot-ai.png tags: - Artificial Intelligence - LLM - Inference - Long Context - Kimi - Foundation Models tags_raw: - AI - LLM - Inference - Long Context - Kimi - Foundation Models created: '2026-05-08' modified: '2026-10-26' specificationVersion: '0.23' maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/kimi-ai-capability-edges.yml name: Kimi (Moonshot AI) Business Capability Map - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: CLI url: cli/kimi-ai-cli.yml - type: SDKs url: packages/kimi-ai-packages.yml - type: Spectral url: rules/kimi-ai-rules.yml - type: Spectral url: rules/kimi-ai-asyncapi-spectral-rules.yml - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/kimi-ai-context.jsonld - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/kimi-ai-vocabulary.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/kimi-ai-data-model.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/kimi-ai-problem-types.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/kimi-ai-conformance.yml - type: IntegrationEdges url: integrations/kimi-ai-integration-edges.yml - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/kimi-ai-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/kimi-ai-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/kimi-ai-authentication.yml - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/MoonshotAI - 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type: Plans url: plans/kimi-ai-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/kimi-ai-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/kimi-ai-finops.yml apis: - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-batch-api name: Moonshot AI Batch API description: The Batch API from Moonshot AI — 4 operation(s) for batch. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Batch properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-batch-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - type: AsyncAPI url: asyncapi/kimi-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml - type: Signup url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys - type: Pricing url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat - type: RateLimits url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits - type: Playground url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-batch-object-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-batch-create-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-batch-list-response-schema.json - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-billing-api name: Moonshot AI Billing API description: The Billing API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for billing. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Billing properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-billing-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - type: AsyncAPI url: asyncapi/kimi-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml - type: Signup url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys - type: Pricing url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat - type: RateLimits url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits - type: Playground url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-balance-response-schema.json - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-files-api name: Moonshot AI Files API description: The Files API from Moonshot AI — 3 operation(s) for files. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - File tags_raw: - Files properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-files-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - type: AsyncAPI url: asyncapi/kimi-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml - type: Signup url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys - type: Pricing url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat - type: RateLimits url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits - type: Playground url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-file-object-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-file-delete-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-file-list-response-schema.json - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-models-api name: Moonshot AI Models API description: The Models API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for models. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Models properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-models-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - type: AsyncAPI url: asyncapi/kimi-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml - type: Signup url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys - type: Pricing url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat - type: RateLimits url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits - type: Playground url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-utilities-api name: Moonshot AI Utilities API description: The Utilities API from Moonshot AI — 2 operation(s) for utilities. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Utilities properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-utilities-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - type: AsyncAPI url: asyncapi/kimi-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml - type: Signup url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys - type: Pricing url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat - type: RateLimits url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits - type: Playground url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-estimate-token-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/kimi-ai-estimate-token-response-schema.json - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-embeddings-api name: Kimi Embeddings API description: >- OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint that returns vector representations of input text for semantic search, clustering, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows. humanURL: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.cn/v1/embeddings tags: - Embeddings - Vectors properties: - type: Documentation url: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs x-moved-from: kimi-moonshot:embeddings (consolidated into kimi-ai 2026-10-13, approved by Kin Lane) - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-fine-tuning-api name: Kimi Fine-Tuning API description: >- Fine-tuning jobs endpoint for customizing Moonshot base models on customer-supplied training data. Mirrors the OpenAI fine-tuning surface. humanURL: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.cn/v1/fine_tuning tags: - Fine-Tuning - Training properties: - type: Documentation url: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs x-moved-from: kimi-moonshot:fine-tuning (consolidated into kimi-ai 2026-10-13, approved by Kin Lane) - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-tokenizer-api name: Kimi Tokenizer API description: >- 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. humanURL: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs baseURL: https://api.moonshot.cn/v1/tokenizers tags: - Tokenizer - Utilities properties: - type: Documentation url: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs x-moved-from: kimi-moonshot:tokenizer (consolidated into kimi-ai 2026-10-13, approved by Kin Lane) - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-kimi-assistant name: Kimi Assistant (kimi.com) description: >- 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. humanURL: https://kimi.com/ baseURL: https://kimi.com/ tags: - Assistant - Consumer properties: - type: Website url: https://kimi.com/ x-moved-from: kimi-moonshot:assistant (consolidated into kimi-ai 2026-10-13, approved by Kin Lane) - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-open-weights name: Moonshot Open-Weights Releases description: >- Open-weight Kimi model releases (for example prior Kimi K1 / K2 checkpoints) published under the MoonshotAI GitHub organization for research and self-hosted use. humanURL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI baseURL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI tags: - Open Weights - Research properties: - type: Repository url: https://github.com/MoonshotAI x-moved-from: kimi-moonshot:open-weights (consolidated into kimi-ai 2026-10-13, approved by Kin Lane) - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-responses-api name: Moonshot AI Responses API description: >- POST /v1/responses — "Create a model response", an OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint with function, custom and web-search tools and streaming events, as published in https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/api/overview baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Responses properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-responses-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted, China region api.moonshot.cn) url: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs/openapi.json - type: Documentation url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs - aid: kimi-ai:kimi-ai-tools-api name: Moonshot AI Tools API description: >- Official tools for models: POST /v1/tools/search (Web Search Basic), POST /v1/tools/search_pro (Web Search Pro) and POST /v1/tools/fetch (URL Fetch), as published in https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json. humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/api/overview baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai tags: - Tools properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/kimi-ai-tools-api-openapi.yml - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted) url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/openapi.json - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted, China region api.moonshot.cn) url: https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs/openapi.json - 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