Is Kimi Code down?
How to check Kimi Code's status properly
Moonshot tracks no dedicated "Kimi Code" component. The tool depends on the "Open API" / "API Service" components (and the model components behind them), so those are what the panel filters to.
The consumer chat product has its own rows — Website, Search and Sign In / Sign Up — and they can be red while the API serving Kimi Code stays green. Most of what this page reports is those rows, not yours.
The status page is hosted at status.moonshot.cn and reports in China Standard Time; incident timestamps are UTC+8.
Model components go down to the family — there is a "K2 Model" row, for instance — but not every model Moonshot ships gets its own component, so a problem with a newer model can be invisible on the page.
What Kimi Code's incident history actually looks like
Moonshot runs the noisiest page on this board, and almost none of the noise concerns Kimi Code. In the 33 days to 13 August 2026 it logged 50 incidents. Thirty-eight were the same auto-generated Chinese title, 搜索请求出现大量报错 ("large number of errors on search requests"), filed against the Search component of the consumer chat app. Another seven were QR-code sign-in failures.
That leaves five that could plausibly touch a coding agent. All five are titled Agentic 模型错误报警 ("agentic model error alert"), all five were filed on 12 July 2026, and none of them carry a component at all.
Every one of the 50 is marked critical, which means the severity field on this page carries no information whatsoever.
That is why the ledger above will usually be blank while Moonshot's own page looks busy: we count only what lands on the Open API, API Service and model rows, and almost nothing does. Read a quiet board here as "nothing filed against the API", then fire one request before you conclude Kimi Code is what broke.
50 incidents, 12 July – 13 August 2026. Counted from status.moonshot.cn/api/v2/incidents.json, pulled . The live board at the
top of this page is current; these numbers are a snapshot and will drift.
Is Kimi Code down, or is it just you?
- Credit exhaustion is the most common false alarm here. A long agentic run drains a Kimi Code subscription fast, and the message you get back reads like a failure rather than a limit.
- An empty ledger above is not a bug. We count only incidents Moonshot files against the API and model components, and it files almost everything against consumer Search instead — so the strip stays blank while status.moonshot.cn itself looks busy.
- Timestamps come back in China Standard Time (UTC+8). An incident that looks days old in your timezone may have opened this morning.
- If the subscription surface misbehaves while the API rows are green, switch to a metered API key for the session. That single test separates quota problems from availability ones.
What to do while Kimi Code is down
- Errors right after a big release (like Kimi K3) are usually capacity, not your setup — retry with backoff or drop to a K2-family model for the session.
- Subscription "credit exhausted" messages are quota, not an outage — Kimi Code credits drain fast on long agentic tasks.
- Kimi Code works with an API key too: if the subscription surface misbehaves while the API is green, metered API access is the workaround.
- For longer outages, an editor-agnostic tool like Aider pointed at another provider keeps you shipping.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if Kimi Code is down?
The live board above reads Moonshot's official status API (status.moonshot.cn) directly in your browser, filtered to the Kimi and API components that Kimi Code depends on. If the board is unreachable, open status.moonshot.cn itself.
Why is Kimi Code slow or erroring with no incident listed?
The usual culprits are subscription credit limits (long agentic tasks drain them quickly, especially on the token-hungry K3 model) or launch-week congestion that never reaches the status page. Switching to metered API access, or to a K2-family model, isolates the layer.
Does Kimi Code have its own status page?
No — Moonshot publishes one status page for the whole platform at status.moonshot.cn, with components for the Kimi app, the Open API, and the model families. There's no Kimi Code-specific component, so API-component incidents are the closest official signal.