Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking

SGLang

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking
```

ispobock commited on Nov 7, 2025

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@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@ Similarly, here are the examples using TP in SGLang for Deployment.
 Here is the simple example code to run TP8 on H200 in a sigle node:
 ``` bash
-python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path $MODEL_PATH --tp 8 --trust-remote-code  --tool-call-parser kimi_k2 --reasoning_parser kimi_k2
 ```
 **Key parameter notes:**
 - `--tool-call-parser kimi_k2`: Required when enabling tool usage.
-- `--reasoning_parser kimi_k2`: Required for correctly processing reasoning content.
 ## KTransformers Deployment

 Here is the simple example code to run TP8 on H200 in a sigle node:
 ``` bash
+python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path $MODEL_PATH --tp 8 --trust-remote-code  --tool-call-parser kimi_k2 --reasoning-parser kimi_k2
 ```
 **Key parameter notes:**
 - `--tool-call-parser kimi_k2`: Required when enabling tool usage.
+- `--reasoning-parser kimi_k2`: Required for correctly processing reasoning content.
 ## KTransformers Deployment