Kimi (Moonshot) Setup

Get API Key

Choose the key source for your product:

• Pay-as-you-go API: create a key in Kimi Open Platform.
• Kimi Code: create a key in the Kimi Code console. Up to five keys are supported and the full value is shown only once.

Official Endpoints

Kimi supports both OpenAI and Anthropic protocols. Kimi Code uses the same key for both endpoints, while the model list is filtered by the key's membership entitlement:

Protocol	Base URL	Common endpoint
OpenAI (pay-as-you-go)	https://api.moonshot.cn/v1	https://api.moonshot.cn/v1/chat/completions
Anthropic (Kimi Code)	https://api.kimi.com/coding/	https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/messages
OpenAI (Kimi Code)	https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1	https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/chat/completions

When Kimi is added from CCX's automatic provider flow (also available as Kimi Code), CCX validates and binds an endpoint per key. Kimi Code models are discovered with GET /coding/v1/models.

Kimi Code model entitlements

Membership	Models	Context window
Andante	kimi-for-coding	1M
Moderato	k3, kimi-for-coding	K3 256K; kimi-for-coding 1M
Allegretto and above	k3, kimi-for-coding, kimi-for-coding-highspeed	Up to 1M for K3; kimi-for-coding 1M; highspeed 256K

Both k3 and kimi-for-coding support low, high, and max reasoning effort (default high for k3, default max for kimi-for-coding). Disabling thinking routes K3-series and kimi-for-coding requests to K2.8 Preview (non-thinking); thinking stays enabled server-side for kimi-for-coding-highspeed.

The k3[1m] form is only a Claude Code environment-variable hint. API requests and CCX model fields use k3.

Add Channel in CCX

Automatic Kimi Code setup (recommended)

Select Kimi / Kimi Code and enter one or more Kimi Code API keys. CCX probes https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/models per key instead of sending a fake inference request, so models outside the membership tier are not listed.

Option 2: Chat Endpoint (OpenAI Compatible)

Field	Value
Name	Kimi
Service Type	openai
Base URL	https://api.moonshot.cn/v1
API Keys	Your Moonshot API Key

Option 3: Messages Endpoint (Anthropic Compatible)

For Claude Code CLI and other tools using Claude Messages protocol.

Field	Value
Name	Kimi Code
Service Type	claude
Base URL	https://api.kimi.com/coding/
API Keys	Your Kimi Code API Key

Kimi Code does not require mapping opus, sonnet, or haiku to a Claude model name. Prefer the model IDs returned by /coding/v1/models; configure an explicit CCX mapping when a client sends a generic alias.

Available Models

Model	Description
k3	Kimi K3 flagship coding model; 256K on Moderato and up to 1M on Allegretto+; supports low / high / max
kimi-for-coding	Kimi K2.8 Preview (model ID unchanged since 2026-09, underlying model upgraded); overall performance close to K3, 1M context, supports low / high / max (default max), available to all memberships
kimi-for-coding-highspeed	Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed, about 5-6x faster output with higher usage; Allegretto+
kimi-k2.7	Latest pay-as-you-go model, native multimodal Agentic model
kimi-k2.6	Multimodal Agentic model, 1T total / 32B active
kimi-k2.5	Multimodal Agentic model
moonshot-v1-auto	Auto-selects context length (legacy)
moonshot-v1-128k	128K context (legacy)

Deprecation Notice

kimi-k2 will be retired on 2026/05/25. Please migrate to kimi-k2.6.

Notes

• The China pay-as-you-go OpenAI-compatible Base URL is https://api.moonshot.cn/v1; CCX also retains compatibility with the global https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 endpoint
• Kimi Code Anthropic Base URL is https://api.kimi.com/coding/; its OpenAI Base URL is https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1
• Kimi Code /coding/v1/models returns the model range for the current key. A 401/403 from that endpoint usually means the key is invalid or unusable; an inference request can also return 401 when its model or context entitlement is unavailable
• kimi-k2.7 is the latest pay-as-you-go model with long-context coding support
• kimi-for-coding and kimi-for-coding-highspeed should only be used with the Kimi Code endpoint