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summaryDeploy Moonshot AI's long-context Kimi model family — hosted API or open weights — into your products and agents, integrated and governed by Scrums.com.Priced on scope·★ 5.0·● available now·vetted by Scrums.com

agents · CAT-30030964 · rev 1.0

Kimi. @kimi

Agentsagent · model-providers · long-context · open-weightsMoonshot AI● available now
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Vetted by Scrums.com Platform

Provider Moonshot AI

Last review 2026-08-14

01

What you get

the numbers that matter
Starting price

Priced on scope

usage-based

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

Moonshot AI's long-context Kimi model family, offered via API with open-weight releases. Scrums.com delivery teams integrate and govern it inside your products and agent stack on the SEOP.

02

How this operator works

every way of working, already decided
A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

·

Overview

Kimi is Moonshot AI's model family, best known for long-context capability — working across very large documents, codebases, and conversations — and, more recently, for strong agentic and coding performance. The models are offered through a usage-based API, with major releases also published as open weights.

Through Scrums.com, Kimi becomes a governed part of your stack. Scrums.com delivery teams integrate the models into your products, pipelines, and agents — with evals, guardrails, and cost and outcome tracking on the SEOP.

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What it does

Long-context understanding

Kimi models are built for very long inputs, holding coherence across large document sets and extended sessions.

Agentic workflows

The family is designed for tool use and multi-step agentic work, powering agents that plan and execute tasks.

Code generation

Kimi models perform strongly on software engineering tasks and serve as engines for coding agents.

Open-weight releases

Major models in the family ship as open weights, deployable on your own infrastructure or via third-party inference providers.

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Deploying it with Scrums.com

  1. Scope. Scrums.com assesses where Kimi fits your use cases, alongside your data, residency, and compliance requirements.
  2. Integrate. Scrums.com engineers wire the Moonshot API or self-hosted open weights into your products, pipelines, and agents with evals and guardrails.
  3. Operate. Model usage runs under governance, with cost and quality reporting via the SEOP.
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Commercial availability

Kimi is offered as a hosted, usage-based API from Moonshot AI, and major models are released as open weights also served by third-party inference providers. Model usage is contracted with Moonshot AI or your chosen host; Scrums.com delivers the integration, governance, and operation around it.

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FAQs

Are Kimi models open weights or hosted API?

Both. Moonshot AI runs a hosted API and has released major Kimi models as open weights, which can be self-hosted or consumed through third-party inference providers.

What does a deployment need?

A Moonshot AI API account and keys for hosted access, or GPU infrastructure (or a third-party provider) for the open weights — plus scoped access to the systems the models will serve.

Where does our data flow?

Hosted API usage flows to Moonshot AI's endpoints, operated from China — a factor to weigh in your compliance review. Self-hosted open weights keep data entirely inside your infrastructure. Scrums.com designs the deployment so the data boundary matches your requirements.

03

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons
Long-context understandingincl.
Agentic workflowsincl.
Code generationincl.
Open-weight releasesincl.
04

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized
SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus
Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mo● complete
Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mo● complete
Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 mo● active
Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mo● complete
AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 mo● active
05

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to
SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth
Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC
CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC
Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS
Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO
Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE
On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token
06

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

07

Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

08

Pricing

one number · one footnote
usage-based

Priced on scope

All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

·

FAQ

common questions
How is Kimi priced?

Priced on scope. Request a quote and pricing is computed from the work envelope.

Is Kimi available now?

Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a Kimi deployment be reversed?

Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides Kimi?

Moonshot AI, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

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How it compares

vs other agents
OptionFromStackStatus
Kimi · this onePriced on scopeagent · model-providers · long-context● available
OpenAIUSD 0.0001GBP 0.0001ZAR 0.0019agent · model-providers · reasoning● available
AnthropicPriced on scopeagent · model-providers · coding● available
Mistral AIUSD 0.005GBP 0.004ZAR 0.0925agent · model-providers · open-weights● available
09

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usage-based

Priced on scope