How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?

Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. The blended average is $2.48 per million tokens.

What is the context window of Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 supports a context window of 256K tokens (256,000 tokens) and can generate up to 16K output tokens per request.

What is Kimi K2.6 best for?

Kimi K2.6 is best for: Frontier quality at low cost. It supports chat, vision, function_calling, code, reasoning capabilities.

Kimi K2.6 — Pricing, Benchmarks & Specs

Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AIflagship New

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.

Context Window

256K

tokens

Max Output

16K

tokens

Input Price

$0.95

per 1M tokens

Output Price

per 1M tokens

Speed

tokens/sec

Released

Apr 2026

2026-04-20

Blended Cost

$2.48

per 1M tokens

Value Score

37.2

quality per $

Capabilities

ChatVisionFunction CallingCode GenerationReasoning

Benchmarks

Quality Index

MMLU Pro

87.4

HumanEval (Coding)

MATH

88.1

Arena ELO

1466

Try in Playground Use via Swfte Connect Moonshot AI Docs

Compare With

Quality: 91·$45.00/1M

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 $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $2.48/1M tokens puts it in the mid-range pricing tier. Its value score of 37.2 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.