moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 — End-of-Life or Removed — shutdown 04/15/26 or 2026-03-06 — sources disagree
For moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is disputed: End-of-Life per console.groq.com, Removed per docs.together.ai; deprecation announced is March 23, 2026; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 04/15/26 per console.groq.com, 2026-03-06 per docs.together.ai; recommended replacement is openai/gpt-oss-120b, recorded from its source on 2026-09-21; source re-checked 2026-11-11.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Together AI per docs.together.ai
- Model ID / API name
- moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life sources disagree
- Deprecation announced
- March 23, 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 04/15/26 sources disagree
- 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
| moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
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`
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
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.
Lifecycle status
console.groq.com says lifecycle status is End-of-Life, as of 2026-09-21.
| moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
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 2026-09-21.
| moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 | 04/15/26 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
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 |
Where the other sources' values come from
These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.
Lifecycle status
The table below lists all models removed from serverless inference, most recent first.
— docs.together.ai, retrieved 2026-09-15
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations