# kimi-for-coding

> kimi-for-coding is a proprietary language model from Moonshot AI, released on 11 Sept 2026. It accepts text, images and video and generates text, with a 1M-token context window and up to 33K output tokens per response.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/kimi-k2-8-preview
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Moonshot AI
- **Release date:** 11 Sept 2026 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Weights:** Proprietary (API only) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Context window:** 1M (1,048,576 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Max output:** 33K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Input:** Text, images and video (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/kimi-code-plan-cn/models/kimi-for-coding.toml)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## FAQ

### What is the context window of kimi-for-coding?

kimi-for-coding has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M) and can generate up to 32,768 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### Is kimi-for-coding open source?

No. kimi-for-coding is a proprietary model; Moonshot AI has not released its weights.

### When was kimi-for-coding released?

Moonshot AI released kimi-for-coding on 11 Sept 2026, according to models.dev.

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