Kimi K2 Base
Developed by Moonshot AI, Kimi K 2 Base is a chat model and a variant of the Kimi K2 mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model, which excels in tasks requiring frontier knowledge, reasoning, and coding capabilities. It is notable for its large context window of 131,072 tokens, allowing it to process extensive conversations or texts.
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131K
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1026.5B
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Estimated GPU requirements for Kimi K2 Base
Estimates based on INT8 quantization at up to 32K context. A count above one assumes tensor parallelism across the cards. Actual requirements vary by framework and configuration.
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Frequently asked questions about Kimi K2 Base
Answered from the entry's own fields: context, license, modalities, evidence, serving and the memory to self-host.
Kimi K2 Base advertises a context window of 131,072 tokens. The figure is the creator's published maximum; a given host may serve less, and the gateway routes on what each host actually serves.
Yes. Kimi K2 Base is an open-weight model released under the Other license, so the weights can be downloaded and self-hosted within that license's terms.
Kimi K2 Base accepts Text and produces Text. The capabilities card on this page lists which API features each deployment honours, such as function calling and structured output, with the source each was checked against.
No published benchmark result for Kimi K2 Base is in the catalog yet, so the model is shown as unmeasured. It is not ranked or estimated; the router treats it as unknown for every task until a suite measures it.
Not on the managed pool today; Kimi K2 Base is listed for reference and comparison. Connect your own provider key or endpoint that serves it and the gateway runs it on your account, with routing decisions recorded the same way.
About 987.8 GB at INT8 for the weights and a default context, from the catalog's 1026.5B parameter count; FP16 needs roughly twice that, and long contexts or many concurrent requests add KV cache on top. The GPU section on this page lists cards that hold it, and the capacity planner sizes it for your context length and traffic.
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Last updated: Aug 28, 2026
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