Moonshot (Kimi)
12 releases on record since 1 Jan 2024. The typical gap between releases is 88 days.
- Latest release
- Kimi K316 Jul 2026
- Days since
- 83
- Typical gap
- 88 daysMiddle half 53–143 days, from 9 gaps
- Shortest and longest gap
- 25 and 244 days
Next release
EstimateBetween 10 Oct 2026 and 27 Jan 2027
From the last 9 gaps between Moonshot (Kimi) releases. Gaps of 83 days or less are left out, because that much time has already passed. The window covers the middle 80% of the gaps that are left.
How often windows like this were right: 1 of 3 times for Moonshot (Kimi), 315 of 437 times (72%) across all labs, replaying each lab's past releases. A window aims for 8 in 10.
Saved estimates (1)
| Made | After | Window | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026 | Kimi K3 | 10 Oct 2026 – 27 Jan 2027 | Open |
History
| Date | Model | Gap | Date from | Listed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | Kimi K3 | 34 d | 4 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepInfra, Venice, Alibaba (Qwen), Hugging Face, NVIDIA NIM, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen, Requesty, Novita, Moonshot (Kimi)+55 more on models.devempiriolabs, sensenova, engy, nano-gpt, crof, tinfoil, baseten, siliconflow, moonshotai-cn, llmgateway-providers, kilo, melious, berget, abacus, novita-ai, 302ai, iteracompute, modal, neuralwatt, zenmux, impossibl, vancine, cloudflare-ai-gateway, aiand, volcengine-coding-plan, ollama-cloud, nebius, greenpt, hyper, jalapeno, orcarouter, moonshotai, ainetcafe, wallaby, scnet-token-plan, ofox, neon, aihubmix, merge-gateway, opper, pioneer, github-copilot, tensorx, edenai, tempr, kenari, llmgateway, vivgrid, tokengo, togetherai, cortecs, crossmodel, arcee, digitalocean, alibaba-cn |
| 12 Jun 2026 | Kimi K2.7 Code | 53 d | 4 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepInfra, Venice, Hugging Face, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen, Requesty, Novita, Moonshot (Kimi)+45 more on models.devempiriolabs, alibaba-token-plan, nano-gpt, crof, baseten, wandb, siliconflow, moonshotai-cn, llmgateway-providers, kilo, alibaba-token-plan-cn, melious, abacus, novita-ai, 302ai, routing-run, neuralwatt, azure, zenmux, inceptron, aiand, volcengine-coding-plan, ollama-cloud, ambient, nebius, greenpt, hyper, jalapeno, orcarouter, moonshotai, scnet-token-plan, ofox, aihubmix, merge-gateway, pioneer, github-copilot, openreason, tensorx, edenai, hpc-ai, tempr, kenari, llmgateway, cortecs, crossmodel |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Kimi K2.6 | 84 d | 4 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepInfra, Venice, Hugging Face, NVIDIA NIM, OpenCode Go, OpenCode Zen, Requesty, Novita, Moonshot (Kimi)+53 more on models.devpoe, empiriolabs, alibaba-token-plan, nano-gpt, crof, baseten, wandb, siliconflow, lilac, moonshotai-cn, privatemode-ai, llmgateway-providers, kilo, alibaba-token-plan-cn, melious, abacus, novita-ai, 302ai, routing-run, azure, azure-cognitive-services, auriko, zenmux, unorouter, inceptron, gmicloud, clarifai, crusoe, ollama-cloud, ambient, ebcloud, greenpt, fastrouter, orcarouter, moonshotai, scnet-token-plan, ofox, aihubmix, merge-gateway, pioneer, tensorx, edenai, tempr, kenari, wafer.ai, llmgateway, evroc, tokengo, cortecs, infomaniak, crossmodel, digitalocean, alibaba-cn |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Kimi K2.5 | 88 d | 3 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepInfra, Venice, Hugging Face, OpenCode Zen, OpenCode Go, Novita, Requesty+37 more on models.devpoe, alibaba-token-plan, nano-gpt, baseten, siliconflow, alibaba-coding-plan, llmgateway-providers, kilo, alibaba-token-plan-cn, melious, abacus, novita-ai, 302ai, azure, azure-cognitive-services, auriko, zenmux, qiniu-ai, jiekou, ollama-cloud, jalapeno, orcarouter, scnet-token-plan, ofox, aihubmix, merge-gateway, tensorx, edenai, hpc-ai, tencent-coding-plan, meganova, amazon-bedrock, llmgateway, daoxe, alibaba-coding-plan-cn, digitalocean, alibaba-cn |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Kimi K2 Thinking | – | 4 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Hugging Face, OpenCode Zen, Novita+15 more on models.devpoe, nano-gpt, kilo, novita-ai, 302ai, zenmux, qiniu-ai, hyper, merge-gateway, meganova, amazon-bedrock, llmgateway, helicone, io-net, alibaba-cn |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Kimi Linear | 111 d | Epoch AI model data
| – |
| 11 Jul 2025 | Kimi K2 Instruct | 25 d | 4 sources agree
| OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Hugging Face, OpenCode Zen, Novita, Requesty+10 more on models.devnano-gpt, llmgateway-providers, kilo, iflowcn, novita-ai, qiniu-ai, jiekou, fastrouter, llmgateway, alibaba-cn |
| 23 Jun 2025 | Kimi VL | – | Epoch AI model data
| – |
| 16 Jun 2025 | Kimi Dev 72b | 145 d | Epoch AI model data
| – |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Kimi K1.5 | 143 d | Epoch AI model data
| – |
| 1 Sep 2024 | Moonshot V1 | 244 d | Epoch AI model data
| – |
| 1 Jan 2024 | Kimi Explorer | – | Epoch AI model data
| – |
Gap is the days since the previous release. Dates are the earliest a source reports; where sources disagree, two or more agreeing sources win over one. These are past dates. Only the Next release panel is an estimate.
Release dates include data from Epoch AI, Data on AI Models (CC BY 4.0).