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Introduction

Kimi is an AI chat service provided by Ace Data Cloud, featuring the Moon’s Dark Side Kimi series large language models. Through the unified API of Ace Data Cloud, you can quickly call Kimi using cURL to achieve multi-turn conversations, system prompts, streaming output, JSON output mode, and other features.

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Prerequisites

  • Have an Ace Data Cloud account and obtain an API Token
  • Terminal environment with cURL installed

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Basic Usage

The main endpoint to call the Kimi API is: 
POST https://api.acedata.cloud/kimi/chat/completions
This example uses the kimi-k2.5 model.
Available models include: kimi-k2.5, kimi-k2-thinking-turbo, kimi-k2-thinking, kimi-k2-instruct-0905. Complete cURL command example: 
curl -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/kimi/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "kimi-k2.5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "你好，请介绍一下你自己"}], "max_tokens": 1024, "temperature": 0.7}'
Please replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the actual token you obtained from the Ace Data Cloud platform.

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Response Example

A successful call returns data in JSON format, for example: 
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    ...
  }
}

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Using jq to Process Response

It is recommended to use the jq tool to format the output: 
curl -s -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/kimi/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "kimi-k2.5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "你好，请介绍一下你自己"}], "max_tokens": 1024, "temperature": 0.7}' | jq .

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Error Handling

Common error codes:
Status CodeDescription
401Authentication failed, please check your API Token
403Insufficient balance or no access permission
429Request rate limit exceeded
500Internal server error

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Next Steps