Kimi K2.6
by Moonshot AIChat
Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Parameters
- 1.03T total
- Released
- 2026-04-21
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- modified-mit
moonshotai/kimi-k2-6 · also seen as novita/kimi-k2.6, @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, kimi-k2.6@eu, moonshot/kimi-k2.6, +17 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-04-21
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- modified-mit
- Input
- Text, Image, Video
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 262,144
- Providers
- 52 + 28 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 150.9 ± 1.8 against price
- Direct price range
- $0.45–$1.44 in · $1.95–$5.75 out per 1M tokens · 42 of 52 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-08-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
- Parameters
- 1.03T total
- Base model
- Kimi K2.5
- Developer country
- China
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.45 in / $1.95 out per 1M tokens at Chutes on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeedMoonshot AI | $0.413 | $0.275 | $1.10 | 262K | +0% |
| GLM-4.5VZ.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.411 | $0.274 | $1.10 | 64K | −0% cheaper |
| GLM-4.6Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.411 | $0.274 | $1.10 | 205K | −0% cheaper |
| GLM-4.7Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | $0.411 | $0.274 | $1.10 | 205K | −0% cheaper |
| Qwen3-Vl 30b A3b ThinkingAlibaba (Qwen) | $0.408 | $0.29 | $1.00 | 262K | −1% cheaper |
| Claude Haiku 3Anthropic | $0.417 | $0.25 | $1.25 | 200K | +1% |
| ERNIE 4.5 300B A47BBaidu | $0.417 | $0.28 | $1.10 | 123K | +1% |
| DeepSeek V3DeepSeek | $0.408 | $0.27 | $1.10 | 164K | −1% cheaper |
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