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Moonshot Ai Rate Limits

Tiered rate limits for Moonshot AI / Kimi platform. Tier0 starts at $1 cumulative recharge with very low limits; tiers progress to Tier5 ($3,000 cumulative) with up to 1,000 concurrency, 10K RPM, 5M TPM, and unlimited TPD.

Moonshot Ai Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Moonshot AI on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests-per-minute and concurrent-requests.

An exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Inference, Long Context, and Kimi.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Tier0 (>= $1 recharge) account
requests-per-minute
3
Concurrency 1, TPM 500K, TPD 1.5M.
Tier1 (>= $10 recharge) account
requests-per-minute
200
Concurrency 50, TPM 2M, TPD unlimited.
Tier5 (>= $3000 recharge) account
requests-per-minute
10000
Concurrency 1000, TPM 5M, TPD unlimited.
Concurrency Tier0 account
concurrent-requests
1
Concurrency Tier5 account
concurrent-requests
1000

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After.
Tier Upgrade
Cumulative recharge advances tier eligibility automatically; vouchers excluded.

Sources

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