moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 — End-of-Life — shutdown 04/15/26
For moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is March 23, 2026; shutdown / retirement date is 04/15/26; recommended replacement is openai/gpt-oss-120b, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Model ID / API name
- moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life
- Deprecation announced
- March 23, 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 04/15/26 verified
- Recommended replacement
- openai/gpt-oss-120b verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Together AI serverless inference per docs.together.ai
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
April 15, 2026: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on March 23, 2026, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 in favor of openai/gpt-oss-120b. The GPT-OSS 120B model delivers exceptional reasoning performance with faster inference, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Deprecation announced
In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on March 23, 2026, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 in favor of openai/gpt-oss-120b. The GPT-OSS 120B model delivers exceptional reasoning performance with faster inference, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform.
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Provider
console.groq.com says provider is Groq, as of 2026-09-09.
April 15, 2026: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on March 23, 2026, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 in favor of openai/gpt-oss-120b. The GPT-OSS 120B model delivers exceptional reasoning performance with faster inference, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
docs.together.ai says provider is Together AI, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-03-06 | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905` | No |
https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
Lifecycle status
console.groq.com says lifecycle status is End-of-Life, as of 2026-09-09.
April 15, 2026: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on March 23, 2026, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 in favor of openai/gpt-oss-120b. The GPT-OSS 120B model delivers exceptional reasoning performance with faster inference, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
docs.together.ai says lifecycle status is Removed, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-03-06 | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905` | No |
https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
Shutdown / retirement date
console.groq.com says shutdown / retirement date is 04/15/26, as of 2026-09-09.
April 15, 2026: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on March 23, 2026, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 in favor of openai/gpt-oss-120b. The GPT-OSS 120B model delivers exceptional reasoning performance with faster inference, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
docs.together.ai says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-03-06, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-03-06 | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905` | No |
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md