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  "$schema": "https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/schema.json",
  "provider": "moonshot",
  "model": "kimi-k2-thinking",
  "name": "Kimi K2 Thinking",
  "aliases": [],
  "description": "Moonshot's reasoning K2, able to run hundreds of sequential tool calls without losing the thread, and the model that put an open-weights system at the top of several agentic leaderboards in late 2025. Its id was retired on 25 May 2026 once thinking became a mode on the general models rather than a separate name.",
  "shutdown_on": "2026-05-25",
  "status": "retired",
  "replacements": [
    {
      "provider": "moonshot",
      "model": "kimi-k2.6",
      "recommended": true,
      "note": "K2.6 has a thinking mode you turn on per request. The response shape differs from this id's, so anything parsing reasoning content out of the body needs checking.",
      "external": false
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/models",
      "title": "Kimi model list",
      "accessed": "2026-08-03"
    }
  ],
  "last_verified": "2026-08-03",
  "computed_status": "retired",
  "asOf": "2026-08-03"
}