Kimi K2 closes to new Moonshot API users
K2 retires by end of December. Where K2.6 still runs and what K3 costs.
Moonshot AI stopped selling its Kimi K2 models to new accounts on its own API on October 31, 2026. Existing Moonshot customers keep access for now, and Moonshot plans to retire every K2 model by the end of December 2026.
What changed
- New Moonshot API accounts can no longer use
kimi-k2.6,kimi-k2.7-codeorkimi-k2.7-code-highspeed. - Existing Moonshot accounts are not affected yet.
- Moonshot plans to retire all K2 models by the end of December 2026.
kimi-k2.5was already discontinued on Moonshot's API on August 31, 2026.
The notice covers Moonshot's own API. It does not say what third-party hosts will do.
Kimi K2.6 on RouterPlus today
RouterPlus lists Kimi K2.6 on 4 providers. Prices per million tokens, from the live catalog on October 31, 2026:
| Provider | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Chutes | $0.39 | $1.80 |
| Nebius | $0.95 | $4.00 |
| StreamLake | $0.95 | $4.00 |
| Inference.net | $1.25 | $5.30 |
Full list: Kimi K2.6 API pricing.
Moving to Kimi K3
Kimi K3 is on 9 providers in the RouterPlus catalog. The lowest input price is $1.50 (Sail Research) and the lowest output price is $9.50 (Chutes). On RouterPlus, switching is a model ID change:
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 -> moonshotai/kimi-k3Every K3 provider and price: Kimi K3 API pricing.