MoonshotAI Kimi Latest functions as a forward-pointing alias on OpenRouter rather than a frozen model snapshot, always routing requests to whatever release is currently newest in the Moonshot AI Kimi family. The alias was created on April 27, 2026 with a very large 1,048,576-token context window, accepting text, image, and video as inputs while emitting text only. Because the alias moves with the family, it inherits the multimodal reasoning and long-context behavior that the latest underlying Kimi release provides, including access via OpenRouter and the same per-million-token pricing of $2.80 for input and $14.00 for output.

For teams that want to stay on the newest Kimi line without manually swapping model identifiers, the alias removes the operational step of tracking each release. The practical sweet spot is long-horizon multimodal work where the very large context window and combined text, image, and video intake matter, and where a single stable endpoint simplifies integration even as the underlying weights advance. Since this slug is a redirect, workloads that require pinning a specific benchmark profile or a fixed model version should target a named Kimi release instead.