What are the hardware requirements for Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF?

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF requires a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF and how large is it?

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF is developed by unsloth. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF?

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF by unsloth — 128K context

Name: Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF
Author: unsloth

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: LLM, Context: 128K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Base model:moonshotai/kimi-k2-... Base model:quantized:moonshota... Conversational Custom code Deepseek v3 Endpoints compatible Fp8 Gguf Instruct Quantized Region:us Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF

Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi K2 Instruct GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2-Instruct-GGUF
Base Model(s)	Kimi K2 Instruct moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	deepseek_v3
Instruction-Based	Yes
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.2
Vocabulary Size	163840
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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