Heroku AI now supports additional Claude, Nova, Kimi, MiniMax, and Qwen models

Change effective on 17 December 2025

Heroku’s Managed Inference and Agents add-on now supports these AI models:

  • Claude Opus 4.5: A next-generation, frontier LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, autonomous coding, effort control, and enhanced reasoning for complex tasks.
  • Nova 2 Lite: A fast and cost-effective LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, and advanced reasoning capabilities with extended context.
  • Kimi K2 Thinking: An open-weight LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, and chain-of-thought processing.
  • MiniMax M2: An open-weight LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, and programming tasks.
  • Qwen3 Coder 480B: An open-weight LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, and agentic coding.
  • Qwen3 235B: An open-weight LLM that supports conversational chat, tool-calling, complex reasoning, and agentic coding.

Select a model to view its documentation and get started.