# 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, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Deprecation announced:** September 10, 2025 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 10/10/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** openai/gpt-oss-120b _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## 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 |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### 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.

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).