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
```

Please Support Pipeline Parallism

by VivekMalipatel23 - opened Aug 9, 2025

Discussion

VivekMalipatel23

Aug 9, 2025

(APIServer pid=35) NotImplementedError: Pipeline parallelism is not supported for this model. Supported models implement the SupportsPP interface.

VivekMalipatel23

Aug 9, 2025

I am trying to host this on vLLM with Pipeline Parallelism as I have 2 GPUs on 2 different nodes. But looks like its not support for this model. I have loaded some other models and pipeline parallelism is working well.

stack trace:

(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/lib/python3.12/contextlib.py", line 210, in aenter
(APIServer pid=35) return await anext(self.gen)
(APIServer pid=35) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/vllm/entrypoints/openai/api_server.py", line 204, in build_async_engine_client_from_engine_args
(APIServer pid=35) vllm_config = engine_args.create_engine_config(usage_context=usage_context)
(APIServer pid=35) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py", line 1335, in create_engine_config
(APIServer pid=35) config = VllmConfig(
(APIServer pid=35) ^^^^^^^^^^^
(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/pydantic/_internal/_dataclasses.py", line 120, in init
(APIServer pid=35) s.pydantic_validator.validate_python(ArgsKwargs(args, kwargs), self_instance=s)
(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/vllm/config/init.py", line 3998, in post_init
(APIServer pid=35) self.model_config.verify_with_parallel_config(self.parallel_config)
(APIServer pid=35) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/vllm/config/init.py", line 1318, in verify_with_parallel_config
(APIServer pid=35) raise NotImplementedError(
(APIServer pid=35) NotImplementedError: Pipeline parallelism is not supported for this model. Supported models implement the SupportsPP interface.

youkaichao

Aug 10, 2025

it seems to me the model supports pipeline parallel, maybe you just need to add a SupportsPP interface. Feel free to open a PR in vLLM.

VivekMalipatel23

Aug 19, 2025

Thank you!

It has been added in https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/fda9537c5e61ea8226fa7e5b60912deda97a8aab

VivekMalipatel23 changed discussion status to closed Aug 19, 2025

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