Kimi-K2-Instruct
- Messages with name field are now supported. We’ve also moved the chat template to a standalone file for easier viewing. - We further modified our chat template to improve its robustness. The default system prompt has also been updated. - We have updated our tokenizer implementation. Now special tokens like [EOS] can be encoded to their token ids. - We fixed a bug in the chat template that was breaking multi-turn to...
Params
1,026.5 B
Context
131,072
Downloads 30d
218 K
Likes
2,989
Download history
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| model.safetensors | f8_e4m3 | 1,029.2 GB | 1,286.6 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
| model.safetensors (bf16, full) | bf16 + 128K ctx | 1,029.2 GB | 3,596.1 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Run it
copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/kimi-k2-instruct
{
"hf_id": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct",
"params_b": 1026.47,
"context_length": 131072,
"license": { "id": "other", "commercial": "unknown" },
"downloads_30d": 217742,
"vram_estimates": [
{ "quant": "f8_e4m3", "gb": 1286.6 }
],
"updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:08:36Z"
}
Specifications
- Architecture
- DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
- Parameters
- 1,026.5 B
- Tensor type
- F8_E4M3
- Context length
- 131,072
- Vocabulary
- 163,840
- Layers / heads
- 61 / 64
- Licence
- other
- First seen on the Hub
- 2025-07-11
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-07-28
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