Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AIflagship

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

$0.73

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$3.49

per 1M tokens

Speed

48

tokens/sec

Released

Apr 2026

2026-04-20

Blended Cost

$2.11

per 1M tokens

Value Score

43.6

quality per $

Capabilities

ChatVisionFunction CallingCode GenerationReasoning

Benchmarks

Quality Index
92
MMLU Pro
87.4
HumanEval (Coding)
92
MATH
88.1
Arena ELO
1466

Price vs Quality

6080100$1.00$10.00$100.00Blended cost per 1M tokens (log scale) →GPT-4o — $6.25/1M, quality 85GPT-4o Mini — $0.375/1M, quality 72o3 Mini — $2.75/1M, quality 88o3 — $5.00/1M, quality 94GPT-4.1 — $5.00/1M, quality 89Claude Opus 4 — $45.00/1M, quality 91Claude Sonnet 4 — $9.00/1M, quality 88Claude 3.5 Haiku — $2.40/1M, quality 75Gemini 2.5 Pro — $5.63/1M, quality 92Gemini 2.0 Flash — $0.250/1M, quality 74Llama 4 Maverick — $0.400/1M, quality 80Llama 4 Scout — $0.275/1M, quality 71Mistral Large 2 — $4.00/1M, quality 79Codestral — $0.600/1M, quality 76DeepSeek V3 — $0.685/1M, quality 86DeepSeek R1 — $1.37/1M, quality 91Grok 3 — $9.00/1M, quality 87Grok 3 Mini — $0.400/1M, quality 78Command R+ — $6.25/1M, quality 68Amazon Nova Pro — $2.00/1M, quality 70Qwen 2.5 72B — $0.600/1M, quality 80Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — $0.300/1M, quality 74Sonar Pro — $9.00/1M, quality 78GPT-5.5 — $17.50/1M, quality 97GPT-5.5 Pro — $105.00/1M, quality 96Claude Opus 4.7 — $15.00/1M, quality 96Gemini 3.1 Pro — $7.00/1M, quality 96DeepSeek V4 Pro — $1.32/1M, quality 89DeepSeek V4 Flash — $0.210/1M, quality 84Qwen 3.6 Plus — $3.50/1M, quality 86Grok 4.3 — $1.88/1M, quality 93Kimi K3 — $9.00/1M, quality 97Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $9.00/1M, quality 90GLM-5.1 — $2.03/1M, quality 88Claude Opus 4.8 — $15.00/1M, quality 98Qwen 3.7 Max — $5.00/1M, quality 94Claude Fable 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100MiniMax M3 — $1.50/1M, quality 89GPT-5.6 Sol — $17.50/1M, quality 98GPT-5.6 Terra — $7.00/1M, quality 93GPT-5.6 Luna — $0.700/1M, quality 83Gemini 3.6 Flash — $2.25/1M, quality 90Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — $1.40/1M, quality 79Claude Sonnet 5 — $9.00/1M, quality 93GLM-5.2 — $2.90/1M, quality 91Claude Opus 5 — $15.00/1M, quality 99Claude Mythos 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100Grok 4.5 — $4.00/1M, quality 94Qwen3.8 Max — $4.00/1M, quality 96Kimi K2.6 — $2.11/1M, quality 92Kimi K2.6
Cheaper is left, more capable is up. 1 of 49 priced models are both cheaper and score at least as high. Self-host models are left off the price axis — their cost depends on the hardware you run them on, not on tokens.

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
Bar length is logarithmic — each full step is 10× the tokens. Shown against the models with the nearest context windows, not the directory extremes.

Pricing History

Apr 20, 2026$0.95 / $4(launch)
May 25, 2026$0.73 / $3.49current

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    "model": "moonshot:kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
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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.

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