Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview)
DeprecatedHigh-speed turbo variant of K2, deprecated/discontinued 2026-05-25 per official model list; Moonshot now names kimi-k3 as the migration target (it named kimi-k2.6 until this page was rewritten). Pricing removed from official pages, left null. Context 256K per K2 family docs (unverified for this exact variant on current pages). First-party re-read 2026-09-06, unchanged from the 2026-09-02 read: Moonshot still lists this id in its Deprecated Models table as "Deprecated", and the retirement warning at the top of that page names only the kimi-k2.5 and moonshot-v1 series as returning 404 — the kimi-k2 series is NOT included in it. So the 2026-05-25 date has passed without Moonshot asserting a shutdown, and the status deliberately stays "deprecated" rather than being flipped on date arithmetic. retires_on was nulled on 2026-09-06: until that day this row also published retires_on 2026-05-25, which was deprecated_on copied into a second field. Moonshot states exactly one date for the kimi-k2 series — the date it was "officially discontinued" — and has never published a shutdown or retirement date for it, so the retirement date was ours and not the provider's. A past retires_on reads to a feed consumer as "this endpoint is dead" while status says otherwise, and it left this note contradicting its own field.
Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) by Moonshot is tracked live in our LLM catalog, with a 262K (262.144-token) context window. It is deprecated; the recommended replacement is Kimi K3. Its weights are publicly downloadable, so it can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure.
Last verified: 26 Sep 2026 · sourced from official provider documentation
Deprecated since 25 May 2026 · no retirement date published
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This model is deprecated. Recommended migration: Kimi K3.
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Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) — questions & answers
What is the context window of Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview)?
Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) has a 262.144-token context window (262K).
Is Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) being deprecated or retired?
Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) is deprecated. It was deprecated on 25 May 2026; no retirement date has been published yet. The recommended migration is Kimi K3.
Does Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) support image or vision input?
Our catalog lists Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview)'s modalities as text; image/vision input is not among them.
Can I self-host Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview)?
Yes — Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) is an open-weight model: its weights are publicly downloadable, so you can run it on your own infrastructure (subject to its license) instead of only calling Moonshot's API.
What is the API model string for Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview)?
The API model identifier for Kimi K2 Turbo (Preview) is "kimi-k2-turbo-preview" when calling Moonshot's API.
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