Is Moonshot AI Kimi Thinking Preview deprecated?
No longer available. Moonshot AI shut Kimi Thinking Preview down on 2025-11-11 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Kimi Thinking Preview takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Moonshot AI's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- unknown
- Output price
- unknown
- Price band
- unknown
- Context window
- unknown
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- not published
- Model maker
- Moonshot AI
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Moonshot AI has not published the date this happened
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Moonshot AI's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Kimi Thinking Preview
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Kimi K2.6 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$0.95 in · $4.00 out / M tokens 262.1K context
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Kimi K2.7 Code Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$0.95 in · $4.00 out / M tokens 262.1K context
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Kimi K2.7 Code High-Speed Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$1.90 in · $8.00 out / M tokens 262.1K context
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Kimi K3 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$3.00 in · $15.00 out / M tokens 1M context
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (mid-tier); shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$3.00 in · $15.00 out / M tokens 200K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- platform.kimi.ai https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/models
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Kimi Thinking Preview deprecated?
- No longer available. Moonshot AI shut Kimi Thinking Preview down on 2025-11-11 — calls to it fail.
- When does Kimi Thinking Preview shut down?
- Moonshot AI has announced 2025-11-11 as the shutdown date for Kimi Thinking Preview.
- What does Kimi Thinking Preview cost?
- No public price is listed for Kimi Thinking Preview in our dataset.
- What can I use instead of Kimi Thinking Preview?
- Active alternatives include Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6, Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 Code, Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 Code High-Speed.