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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 AI, 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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43.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 46/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
6 APIs
AILLMInferenceLong ContextKimi

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 43.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 5.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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 1

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

Moonshot AI API

OPEN COLLECTION

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:
- AI
- LLM
- Inference
- Long Context
- Kimi
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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:
  - 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