Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True) messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModel model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Inference
- HuggingChat
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" # 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-K3", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- SGLang
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 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-K3" \ --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-K3", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'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-K3" \ --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-K3", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Add LHTB (Long-Horizon Terminal-Bench) eval result: 37.8
Adds the Long-Horizon Terminal-Bench (LHTB) result for Kimi K3 so it appears on the LHTB benchmark leaderboard.
Score: 37.8 (mean reward x100 over 46 tasks, partial credit)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Mean reward (46 tasks) | 0.3778 |
| Solved (reward >= 0.95) | 6 / 46 |
| Perfect (reward = 1.0) | 5 / 46 |
| Agent | terminus-2 (official LHTB Harbor harness) |
| Budget | 90 min per task, 1 trial per task |
LHTB measures how well agents sustain useful work in a containerized terminal
over hundreds of steps, graded by hidden rebuild-from-artifact verifiers. This
places Kimi K3 2nd among open-weight models currently on the board.
Complete run artifacts (per-trial configs, results, verifier outputs and terminal
recordings) are published so the score can be audited without rerunning the suite:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/IntelligenceLab/LHTB-leaderboard/tree/main/submissions/long-horizon-terminal-bench/1.0/terminus-2__api_moonshot_kimi-k3
Submitted by the LHTB maintainers; happy to adjust the formatting or withdraw if you prefer.