Is kimi-k2-thinking deprecated?

Q: Is kimi-k2-thinking deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-05-25 — 69 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-05-25 — 69 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail. Sources disagree on: max_output_tokens.

state=dead sunset=2026-05-25 days_remaining=-69 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=max_output_tokens checked=2026-08-02 01:41Z

moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking

Vendor: moonshot. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking	262,144	262,144	$0.6	$2.5	2026-05-25
openrouter	moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking	262,144	100,352	$0.6	$2.5	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking: retires 2026-05-25 (68 days ago)	2026-08-01
info	deprecated	moonshot/kimi-k2-thinking: deprecation announced for 2026-05-25 (date already passed)	2026-06-05