https://www.vaanalytics.in/lab/moonshotai Changes and news for moonshotai models: releases, price moves, deprecations. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:46:26 GMT https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking 3a5be4d7a59e Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 100352 → 98304 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking ba460ac3b6b0 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 100352 → 98304 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 f61e2c93fe1b Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 2.34 → 2.648138; cost.output: 11.7 → 13.282724; cost.cache_read: 0.261 → 0.302644 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 caf7bc6efdb5 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 3 → 2.34; cost.output: 15 → 11.7; cost.cache_read: 0.3 → 0.261 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking 158f17ad602d Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 235929 → 100352 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking 65d78a08be85 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 235929 → 100352; cost.cache_read: null → 0.15 https://news.designrush.com/ai-model-trustworthiness-guide-brands-agencies 131971f Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Moonshot released Kimi K2 Thinking in November 2025 and Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026. ### Current Status Kimi is the most popular Chinese AI tool inside Western enterprises, often used without IT approval because it is free and runs in a browser. Moonshot open-sourced K3's weights on July 27 and is negotiating hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. ### Top Controversies [...] The model still censors politically sensitive topics, and self-hosting leaves that intact. A company that ships open weights and closes ranks on basic data questions is trading away brand trust it could keep. ## Moonshot AI's Kimi ### Brief Backstory Kimi comes from Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, backed by more than $1 billion from Alibaba and Tencent. DeepSeek got the bigger headlines in early 2025, and Kimi has since become the dominant Chinese AI tool by usage. [...] Incogni's 2026 Gen AI and LLM privacy ranking found that Moonshot lets users opt out of training data use without making the process clear. Users have to email support and verify their identity manually, with no in-product toggle. Kimi's open weights make a U.S. ban hard to enforce, since the model runs independently of Moonshot's servers. ### Public Reaction and Company Response Moonshot's privacy policy acknowledges an opt-out right and puts the entire burden of using it on the user. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-must-protect-its-training-data 1n8nciq Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:24:19 GMT And China’s labs have taken advantage. Recent reporting puts the top six Chinese labs’ annual spending with U.S. AI data companies at over $500 million. And experts have long speculated as much: SemiAnalysis wrote in January that Surge sells training environments “to Chinese labs like Moonshot and Z.ai,” and that access “played a huge part in increasing the capabilities for Kimi K2 Thinking and GLM-4.6.” [...] Kimi, like all AI models, was trained using two key resources: semiconductor chips and training data. Policymakers have focused heavily on limiting China’s access to the U.S.’s best chips— producers such as Nvidia and Intel face myriad export controls restricting sales to China. [...] # America Must Protect Its Training Data Washington has spent the summer alarmed by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI). After the release of Kimi K3—a Chinese model that pulled within reach of the U.S. frontier models—the White House began weighing plans to ban enterprise use of Chinese models, and Congress has escalated probes into the use of Chinese AI by U.S. companies. https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code 41e84a28781a Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.66 → 0.71; cost.output: 3.4 → 3.5; cost.cache_read: 0.18 → 0.15 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking 5a4891bdb381 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 100352 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking bf7778d69350 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 100352 → 235929; cost.cache_read: 0.15 → null https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 0ce6806d2fdb Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: Kimi K2.5 via moonshotai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking-turbo 65e62a07b6f2 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo via moonshotai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking fd17c54de95c Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_removed: Kimi K2 Thinking via moonshotai https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 93b035e4eb34 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 1048576 → 943718 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 91578727e6e4 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.6 → 0.45; cost.output: 3 → 2.25; cost.cache_read: 0.1 → 0.07 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 fdd8cf057c6f Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT attachment: false → true https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 94246ad40dba Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 2.5 → 2; cost.output: 13.5 → 10; cost.cache_read: 0.25 → 0.2 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 183d3e2a5b78 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT provider_added: Kimi K2.6 via tokengo https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 585d7a307d4a Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 3 → 2.55; cost.output: 15 → 12.75; cost.cache_read: 0.3 → 0.256 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code 73161ec2a9d3 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_read: 0.19 → 0.16 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code 940eedaf27da Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT provider_added: Kimi K2.7 Code via openreason https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 d2deeb9d9753 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT provider_added: Kimi K3 via tokengo https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code 49e94710f595 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.67 → 0.66; cost.cache_read: 0.19 → 0.18 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 e054d4cace37 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.6 → 0.45; cost.output: 3 → 2.25; cost.cache_read: 0.1 → 0.07 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code 0f44e8bd823f Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 3d88049b43f0 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 4fb09673332e Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 1048576 → 943718 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 599390b7f34f Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 1048576 → 943718 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 6d7d8a999f58 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 a5ef535618df Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code c17d3398b97f Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 ce6fb548b3a0 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT limit.output: 262144 → 235929 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 e14e2a7f961f Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: Kimi K3 via cloudflare-ai-gateway https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 137254cb9f42 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.45 → 0.6; cost.output: 2.25 → 3; cost.cache_read: 0.07 → 0.1 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 5129247fe3ed Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.5415 → 0.95; cost.output: 2.28 → 4; cost.cache_read: 0.0912 → 0.16 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code b42cf2d0da8f Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.cache_read: 0.17 → 0.19 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 29cc02dfe941 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.5415 → 0.95; cost.output: 2.28 → 4; cost.cache_read: 0.0912 → 0.16 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 0139d0f50795 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.5795 → 0.5605; cost.output: 2.44 → 2.36; cost.cache_read: 0.0976 → 0.0944 https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k3 5b4ca9a276d1 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT model_added: Kimi K3 via nvidia https://www.vaanalytics.in/m/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 a23ff06910f7 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT cost.input: 0.95 → 0.5795; cost.output: 4 → 2.44; cost.cache_read: 0.16 → 0.0976