moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct is a moonshotai record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as image-text-to-text. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 16,407,657,776. Architectural context length (max_position_embeddings) is 131,072. The listed licence is mit. The Hub repository was created on 9 Apr 2025, which is the release date this register uses.
Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.
| Organisation | moonshotai |
|---|---|
| ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face | 9 Apr 2025 |
| Last modified | 30 Jan 2026 |
| ParametersExact, from the safetensors index | 16.4B 16,407,657,776 |
| Context lengthmax_position_embeddings — architectural maximum, not necessarily served | 128K 131,072 |
| Licence | mit |
| Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model API | image-text-to-text |
| Base modelDeclared on the Hub and present on this register | moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B |
| File formats | safetensors |
| Librarylibrary_name on the Hugging Face model API | transformers |
| Architecture | kimi_vl |
| Layers | 27 |
| Vocabulary | 163,840 |
| DownloadsAt last check | 143.4k |
| Likes | 284 |
| Gated | No |
Lineage
This record names moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B as its base model, and that release is on this register.
How to run
Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.
The Hugging Face model API lists the library as transformers.
Load it from huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.
Agent capabilities
Derived from the model’s own chat template, with the match counts behind each finding.
- ○Tool callingno evidence in template
- ○Reasoning / thinkingno evidence in template
- ●System prompt2 matches in template
- ●Image input4 matches in template
- ○Video inputno evidence in template
- ○Audio inputno evidence in template
Questions this record can answer
- When was Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct released?
- The Hugging Face repository was created on 9 Apr 2025, which is the date this register uses.
- How many parameters does Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct have?
- The safetensors index gives 16,407,657,776 parameters, shown here as 16.4B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
- What is the context length of Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct?
- 131,072 tokens. That is max_position_embeddings from the model's own config.json — the architectural maximum, not necessarily the context a provider serves.
- What licence is Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct under?
- The Hub card lists mit.
- Is Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct gated?
- No. The Hugging Face model API does not mark this repository as gated.
- Does the Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct chat template show tool calling?
- The chat template was read and no tool-calling evidence was found.
Where each field came from
- Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters, libraryName, formats, baseModel. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
- config.json — contextLength, layers, vocabSize, architecture. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
- chat template — capabilities. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 18 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct.