diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
index 4e8fe96fdbf6..1260860e8e4f 100644
--- a/tests/models/registry.py
+++ b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -1475,6 +1475,8 @@ def check_available_online(
         trust_remote_code=True,
         speculative_model="AQ-MedAI/Kimi-K25-eagle3",
         tokenizer="moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5",
+        use_original_num_layers=True,
+        max_model_len=8192,  # Reduce KV cache so full-layer Kimi fits in CI VRAM
     ),
     "Eagle3DeepseekV3ForCausalLM": _HfExamplesInfo(
         "moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5",