ST-2026-067 · Enforcement & amendments
Cloudflare extends Kimi K2.5 retirement and aliases requests to K2.6
Workers AI moved Kimi K2.5 retirement from 10 May to 30 May 2026 and automatically aliases requests to the higher-priced K2.6 model.
Cloudflare Workers AIKimi K2.5Kimi K2.6model retirement
Previous state
Kimi K2.5 remained directly addressable until the original 10 May retirement target.
Current state
Retirement moved to 30 May and requests automatically resolve to Kimi K2.6.
Affected users
Who needs to care
Workers AI applications calling @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5.
Required response
What to do
Evaluate K2.6 capability and pricing and update explicit model governance rather than relying silently on the alias.
Evidence boundary
What the source does not prove
K2.6 has different pricing and potentially different behaviour; the alias is not guaranteed to be impact-free.
Lifecycle history
Dated event sequence
- Original retirement
Original target later extended.
- Revised retirement
K2.5 requests began aliasing to K2.6.
Evidence ledger
First-party sources
- 01Cloudflare Developers — Workers AI changelog
Official model lifecycle changelog · 2026-05-01
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