Moonshot AI

Moonshot and Kimi Coding are two separate providers in OpenClaw: different keys, different endpoints and different model naming. Treat them as independent integrations, not as two model variants under one API.

Providers OpenAI Anthropic

Two Separate Providers

Moonshot

Moonshot Kimi API

Model references use moonshot/<modelId>, such as moonshot/kimi-k2.5.

Kimi Coding

Model references use kimi-coding/<modelId>, and the keys or endpoints are not interchangeable with the Moonshot API.

Common Setup

Moonshot

openclaw onboard --auth-choice moonshot-api-key

Kimi Coding

openclaw onboard --auth-choice kimi-code-api-key

Default model snippet

{
  env: { MOONSHOT_API_KEY: "sk-..." },
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "moonshot/kimi-k2.5" }
    }
  }
}

Notes

Common K2-series models include kimi-k2.5 and kimi-k2-thinking.

If you deploy in mainland China, it can make sense to switch to the region-specific endpoint mentioned in the documentation.

Only add detailed provider metadata in models.providers when you actually need custom cost, context or other overrides.