moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct — End-of-Life — shutdown 10/10/25
For moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is September 10, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 10/10/25; 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 verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life
- Deprecation announced
- September 10, 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 10/10/25 verified
- Recommended replacement
- openai/gpt-oss-120b verified
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
October 10, 2025: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on September 10, 2025, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct in favor of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905. The newer Kimi K2 0905 model delivers a 256K context window and improved agentic coding capabilities at the same speed and price as the original Kimi K2 model. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct | 10/10/25 | openai/gpt-oss-120b |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on September 10, 2025, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct in favor of moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905. The newer Kimi K2 0905 model delivers a 256K context window and improved agentic coding capabilities at the same speed and price as the original Kimi K2 model.
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Source
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
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