Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

SGLang

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
```

Multimodality

by Dampfinchen - opened Jul 12, 2025

Discussion

Dampfinchen

Jul 12, 2025

•

edited Jul 12, 2025

Hello!

Fantastic model, great job on it. Great logic, nice writing style, fantastic creative writing, top coder. It's the best local model for sure right now.

However, just like the DeepSeek model it lacks multimodality or even omnimodality. For many, these are important use cases, video/image/audio/text in, audio/text out would be enough.

Without sacrifcing text generation performance, it would be a killer model. (Even though I can't run it, I really want downscaled versions of this model for consumer systems)

Have a good day, your work is appreciated.

xxr3376

Moonshot AI org Jul 12, 2025

There will be a multimodal model of course!

AlexCoder9

Jul 20, 2025

Great model - great work by your team - eagerly awaiting the multimodal version.

m7mdazm3x

Jul 30, 2025

Is anyone aware when we will get image support?

Upload images, audio, and videos by dragging in the text input, pasting, or clicking here.

Tap or paste here to upload images

· Sign up or log in to comment