Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506", 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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506"
# 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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506",
		"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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506

SGLang

How to use moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506" \
    --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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506",
		"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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506" \
        --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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506",
		"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-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506
```

Thank you!

by googlefan - opened Jun 22, 2025

Discussion

googlefan

Jun 22, 2025

Thank you for releasing this fantastic model! It would be even more powerful if it offered native reasoning in more languages, and function‐calling. I’ve noticed clear improvements over the previous version, and it’s much easier to use!

CyborgPaloma

Jun 24, 2025

+1 y'all have been doing some amazing things for the world and I just wanted to say the same. Congrats on another SOTA model in it's class so soon after Dev, and it's efficient, and it's open. So awesome.

teowu

Moonshot AI org Jul 1, 2025

Thank you for liking our model! We will continue to bring more amazing things public~

BingoBird

Aug 28, 2025

Thanks from here too.
My brain can barely begin to imagine the possibilities.
The fact that this works is still mind blowing.
There's awesome people on the planet for sure.

eleius

5 days ago

Thank you for liking our model! We will continue to bring more amazing things public~

I hope you release more small models like Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct for those like me who can't run 1T models!

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