Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI's April 20 2026 frontier model. 256K context with text, image, and video input. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 54; SWE-bench Verified 80.2%, up sharply from K2.5.
256K
tokens
16K
tokens
$0.73
per 1M tokens
$3.49
per 1M tokens
48
tokens/sec
Apr 2026
2026-04-20
$2.11
per 1M tokens
43.6
quality per $
Capabilities
Benchmarks
Price vs Quality
Context Window in Context
- Amazon Nova Pro300K
- Qwen3.8 27B262K
- ▸ Kimi K2.6256K
- Codestral256K
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni256K
- Qwen 3.6 Plus256K
- Hunyuan Hy3256K
- Ling-3.0-Flash256K
Pricing History
Not on our gateway yet
Swfte Connect does not hold a key for Kimi K2.6, so there is nothing to run here. Add your own provider key and call it with the same API as every other model in this directory.
curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "moonshot:kimi-k2.6",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'About Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is a flagship AI model by Moonshot AI, released on April 20, 2026. It supports a context window of 256K tokens and can generate up to 16K output tokens.
At $0.73 per million input tokens and $3.49 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $2.11/1M tokens puts it in the mid-range pricing tier. Its value score of 43.6 reflects the balance of quality and cost.
Using Kimi K2.6 with Swfte
Access Kimi K2.6 through Swfte Connect, our unified LLM gateway. Connect gives you a single API for 50+ models, with automatic routing, cost optimization, and fallback handling. You can also try Kimi K2.6 in our AI Playground before integrating.