Provider: Moonshot AI

Call Moonshot AI models through Respan Gateway with unified logs, cost, and latency.

This page is for Respan LLM Gateway users.

Use Respan Gateway to call Moonshot AI’s Kimi models, including moonshot/kimi-k3, while keeping unified observability (logs, cost, latency, reliability) in Respan.

Moonshot AI requires bring your own key (BYOK). Provider usage cannot be paid with Respan credits.

Paste this into your coding agent:


Help me set up the Respan gateway to call Moonshot AI models.
Follow https://www.respan.ai/docs/integrations/gateway/model-providers/moonshot.md

Quick setup

Get a Respan API key

Add your Moonshot AI credentials

Configure your Moonshot AI credentials on the Providers page before using the examples below. See Use your own Moonshot AI key.

Send your first request

After configuring your Moonshot AI credentials in Respan, pick the integration that matches your stack. The base URL is https://api.respan.ai/api and your application authenticates with RESPAN_API_KEY.

Moonshot is OpenAI-compatible. Point the OpenAI SDK at the Respan gateway and call any Moonshot model.


from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.respan.ai/api",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Kimi!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Call respan.chat(...) explicitly to use the Gateway Chat Completions endpoint.

Use @ai-sdk/openai and point createOpenAI at the Respan gateway.


import { createOpenAI } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText } from "ai";

const respan = createOpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.RESPAN_API_KEY!,
  baseURL: "https://api.respan.ai/api",
});

const result = await generateText({
  model: respan.chat("moonshot/kimi-k3"),
  prompt: "Hello, Kimi!",
});
console.log(result.text);

Call the Respan REST API directly from any language.


import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.respan.ai/api/chat/completions",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={
        "model": "moonshot/kimi-k3",
        "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Kimi!"}],
    },
)
print(response.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])

More integrations

Moonshot models work with every Respan gateway integration:

Switch models

Change the model parameter to call any supported model through the same client. Use the moonshot/ prefix to disambiguate when routing across providers. Browse the full list on the Models page .


client.chat.completions.create(model="moonshot/kimi-k3", messages=messages)
client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-6-sol", messages=messages)
client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-opus-5-5", messages=messages)

Use your own Moonshot AI key (BYOK)

Moonshot AI credentials are required. Configure them in Respan or pass them with each request using one of the options below.

Open Providers

Go to the Providers page .

Add Moonshot

Select Moonshot and paste your moonshot.api_key.

Load balancing (Optional)

Add multiple credential sets and use Load balancing weight to distribute traffic across them.

Override credentials per model (Optional)

Use credential_override when one model on a request should use a different Moonshot key than the default.


{
  "customer_credentials": {
    "moonshot": { "api_key": "YOUR_MOONSHOT_API_KEY" }
  },
  "credential_override": {
    "moonshot/kimi-k3": { "api_key": "ANOTHER_MOONSHOT_API_KEY" }
  }
}

Log without proxying (Optional)

Already calling Moonshot directly? Send logs to Respan asynchronously to track cost, latency, and performance for those external calls.


import requests

requests.post(
    "https://api.respan.ai/api/request-logs/create/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={
        "model": "moonshot/kimi-k3",
        "prompt_messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}],
        "completion_message": {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello from Moonshot through Respan."},
        "cost": 0.001,
        "generation_time": 1.2,
        "customer_params": {"customer_identifier": "user_123"},
    },
)

See the logging guide for the full setup.