Deploying Kimi K2.5 on Azure

Deploying Kimi K2.5 on Azure: A Complete Guide to Running MoonshotAI's Model

Kimi K2.5 is MoonshotAI’s latest powerhouse, offering sophisticated reasoning capabilities and a massive context window. Now that it’s integrated into Azure AI Foundry, enterprise users can deploy it with the same security and scalability as the GPT family. Beyond its raw specs, Kimi K2.5 is exciting because it has established itself as one of the premier OSS models for agentic workflows, proving to be a strong performer with frameworks like OpenClaw. In this guide, we’ll bypass the portal and use the Azure CLI to stand up a production-ready Kimi K2.5 instance. ...

February 9, 2026 · 4 min · Suraj Deshmukh