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Kimi VL A3B Instruct

This model runs as a dedicated deployment on large GPUs and isn't in the shared playground by default. Get in touch and we'll set it up for you.

We present Kimi-VL, an efficient open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model (VLM) that offers advanced multimodal reasoning, long-context understanding, and strong agent capabilities—all while activating only 2.8B parameters in its language decoder (Kimi-VL-A3B).

moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct On request
text+image->text · moonshotai · EU-hosted
16B
Parameters
Context window
48GB
Minimum VRAM
POST /api/v1/chat/completions On request

Specifications

Parameters 16B
Minimum VRAM 48 GB
Architecture KimiVLForConditionalGeneration (vLLM)
License mit
Modality text+image->text
Released April 2025
Publisher moonshotai ↗

Pricing

€0.08
Input (per 1M tokens)
€0.25
Output (per 1M tokens)

Shared EU router, pay-per-token, scale-to-zero. Dedicated GPU deployments are billed hourly, see pricing.

Not available on the shared router. Pricing on request as a dedicated GPU deployment.

Call it now

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI: change only the base URL and API key. The Anthropic format (/v1/messages) is supported too.

curl https://hostyourai.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hyai-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Frequently asked questions

Can I run Kimi VL A3B Instruct in the EU?

Yes. HostYourAI runs Kimi VL A3B Instruct on GPUs in European datacenters via vLLM. Prompts and outputs never leave the EU and there is no US cloud provider in the chain.

Is hosting Kimi VL A3B Instruct GDPR-compliant?

Yes. All processing happens inside the EU, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available and the subprocessor list is public. Open-source weights also mean: no training on your data.

How much does Kimi VL A3B Instruct cost?

Via the shared EU router you pay €0.08 per million input tokens and €0.25 per million output tokens, with no fixed costs. For high volume or isolation you can also run Kimi VL A3B Instruct as a dedicated hourly GPU instance.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes. You use the standard OpenAI SDKs with a custom base URL (https://hostyourai.com/api/v1). The Anthropic Messages API is supported as a drop-in as well.

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