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Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is a Chinese foundation model company best known for Kimi, an LLM with industry-leading long-context capabilities. The Moonshot platform exposes OpenAI-compatible chat completion, files, batch, models, balance, and token-estimation APIs.

Moonshot AI publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Batch API, Billing API, Chat API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Inference, Long Context, and Kimi.

The Moonshot AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Moonshot AI’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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32.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
6 APIs
Artificial IntelligenceLLMInferenceLong ContextKimi

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 32.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Access Clarity 2.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Contract Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Moonshot AI Batch API

The Batch API from Moonshot AI — 3 operation(s) for batch.

Moonshot AI Billing API

The Billing API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for billing.

Moonshot AI Chat API

The Chat API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for chat.

Moonshot AI Files API

The Files API from Moonshot AI — 3 operation(s) for files.

Moonshot AI Models API

The Models API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for models.

Moonshot AI Utilities API

The Utilities API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for utilities.

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch Billing API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI Batch Utilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Moonshot AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Moonshot Ai Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Moonshot Ai Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Moonshot Ai Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Moonshot AI Chat Completions Streaming API

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the Moonshot AI streaming chat completions surface. Moonshot's `/v1/chat/completions` endpoint is OpenAI-compatible and, when invoked with `stream: t...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Moonshot AI API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Moonshot Ai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Moonshot Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Moonshot Ai Agentic Access

13 operations · 6 acting

13 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: moonshot-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/moonshot-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Moonshot AI
kind: company
description: Moonshot AI is a Chinese foundation model company best known for Kimi, an LLM with industry-leading long-context
  capabilities. The Moonshot platform exposes OpenAI-compatible chat completion, files, batch, models, balance, and token-estimation
  APIs.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/moonshot-ai.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Inference
- Long Context
- Kimi
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Long Context
- Kimi
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-batch-api
  name: Moonshot AI Batch API
  description: The Batch API from Moonshot AI — 3 operation(s) for batch.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - Batch
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-batch-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-billing-api
  name: Moonshot AI Billing API
  description: The Billing API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for billing.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - Billing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-billing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-chat-api
  name: Moonshot AI Chat API
  description: The Chat API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-files-api
  name: Moonshot AI Files API
  description: The Files API from Moonshot AI — 3 operation(s) for files.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-models-api
  name: Moonshot AI Models API
  description: The Models API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
- aid: moonshot-ai:moonshot-ai-utilities-api
  name: Moonshot AI Utilities API
  description: The Utilities API from Moonshot AI — 1 operation(s) for utilities.
  humanURL: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.moonshot.ai
  tags:
  - Utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/moonshot-ai-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/moonshot-ai-chat-completions-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/console/api-keys
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/limits
  - type: Playground
    url: https://platform.kimi.ai/playground
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/moonshot-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/moonshot-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/moonshot-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/MoonshotAI
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moonshot-ai-linkedin
- type: Website
  url: https://www.moonshot.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/moonshot-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/moonshot-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/moonshot-ai-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com