Moonshot AI (Kimi) API

Moonshot AI’s Kimi model is a leading Chinese LLM that pioneered long-context windows (up to 128k - 2M tokens) and excels in high-quality text understanding and code generation.

🚀 Key Specs

  • Model Support: moonshot-v1-8k/32k/128k, moonshot-v1-auto.
  • Initial Free Credits: $15 Trial Credit (roughly 1 million tokens of moonshot-v1-8k) for new users upon registration.
  • Special Features: Massive context window, excellent Chinese nuance.
  • Style: Fully OpenAI API compatible.

🗝 How to get an API Key

  1. Visit Moonshot Platform (platform.moonshot.cn).
  2. Register and create a secret API Key.
  3. Access your $15 trial credit immediately after activation.

🛠 Usage Example (Python/OpenAI Library)

from openai import OpenAI
 
client = OpenAI(
    api_key="<Moonshot API Key>",
    base_url="https://api.moonshot.cn/v1"
)
 
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot-v1-8k",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "How are you doing today?"}],
    stream=False
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)