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Kimi K2.6

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context

Source-linkedkimi-k2Open weightsReleased 2026-04-21
Report data
Context window262.144K
Maximum output262.144K
Provider offers48
Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Capabilities

What this model supports

ReasoningYes
Tool callingYes
Structured outputYes
AttachmentsYes
Temperature controlYes
Open weightsYes
Creator
Moonshot AI
Family
kimi-k2
Modalities
Image, Text, Video
License
Not documented
Release date
2026-04-21
Model ID
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Market availability

Provider pricing

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Providers offering Kimi K2.6
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Alibaba Token Plan (China)kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.000$0.000$0.000R T ·
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LLM Gatewaykimi-k2.6262.144K$0.400$2.200$0.080R T S
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CrofAIkimi-k2.6262.144K$0.500$1.990$0.050R T S
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NanoGPTmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6256K$0.530$2.730· T ·
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OpenRoutermoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.660$3.410$0.150R T S
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Inceptronmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.144K$0.660$3.500$0.200R T S
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Neuralwattmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.128K$0.690$3.220$0.172R T ·
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Lilacmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.700$3.500$0.200R T S
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Venice AIkimi-k2-6256K$0.750$3.500$0.160R T S
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Kilo Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.750$3.500$0.375R T S
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NovitaAImoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.800$3.400$0.160R T S
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GMI Cloudmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.665.536K$0.855$3.600$0.144R T S
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EmpirioLabs AIkimi-k2-6256K$0.894$3.713$0.179R T S
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Abacusmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.190R T S
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OpenCode Gokimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T ·
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DigitalOceankimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000R T S
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AIHubMixkimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Azure Cognitive Serviceskimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000R T S
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Basetenmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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ZenMuxmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.14K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T ·
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Aurikokimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Moonshot AIkimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Clarifaimoonshotai/chat-completion/models/Kimi-K2_6262.144K$0.950$4.000R T S
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Vercel AI Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Weights & Biasesmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Merge Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000R T S
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Cloudflare Workers AI@cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Cloudflare AI Gatewayworkers-ai/@cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6256K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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OrcaRouterkimi/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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Ambientmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.200R T S
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Azurekimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000R T S
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Pioneermoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.340R T S
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Moonshot AI (China)kimi-k2.6262.144K$0.950$4.000$0.160R T S
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CrossModelmoonshot/kimi-k2.6262K$1.000$4.160$0.180R T S
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UnoRouterkimi-k2.6262.144K$1.268$5.337R T S
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evrocmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6262.144K$1.438$5.750R T S
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Tinfoilkimi-k2-6256K$1.500$5.250R T S
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Evidence

Published benchmark results

Agentic Index vs top 8 models
GPT-5.6 Sol
54.0
Claude Fable 5
52.8
GPT-5.6 Terra
47.4
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
47.2
Claude Sonnet 5
46.7
xAI: Grok 4.5
45.7
GPT-5.6 Luna
45.6
Kimi K2.6
30.3
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index vs top 1 models
Kimi K2.6
50.5
Coding Index vs top 8 models
GPT-5.6 Sol
77.4
GPT-5.6 Terra
76.7
Claude Fable 5
76.5
GPT-5.5
74.9
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
74.3
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
73.6
xAI: Grok 4.5
72.4
Kimi K2.6
61.8
Design Arena: 3d vs top 7 models
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1371.0
Claude Fable 5
1361.0
xAI: Grok 4.5
1352.0
Kimi K2.6
1348.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1348.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1336.0
DeepSeek V4 Pro
1326.0
Design Arena: agenticgamedev vs top 7 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1277.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1251.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1208.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1206.0
GPT-5.5
1201.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1191.0
Kimi K2.6
1175.0
Design Arena: agentichtmlslides vs top 7 models
Claude Fable 5
1254.0
Kimi K2.6
1248.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1243.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1227.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1226.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1205.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1162.0
Design Arena: agenticslides vs top 7 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1334.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1294.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1245.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1244.0
Kimi K2.6
1187.0
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
1171.0
GPT-5.5
1150.0
Design Arena: agenticslides(html) vs top 7 models
Claude Fable 5
1252.0
Kimi K2.6
1252.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1242.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1230.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1219.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1204.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1162.0
Design Arena: agenticslides(python-pptx) vs top 7 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1331.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1310.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1242.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1240.0
Kimi K2.6
1186.0
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
1183.0
GPT-5.5
1155.0
Design Arena: androidnative vs top 8 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1370.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1290.0
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
1267.0
GPT-5.5
1260.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1250.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1247.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1246.0
Kimi K2.6
1209.0
Design Arena: codecategories vs top 7 models
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1352.0
Claude Fable 5
1344.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1336.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1330.0
xAI: Grok 4.5
1328.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1321.0
Kimi K2.6
1320.0
Design Arena: dataviz vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
1372.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1366.0
xAI: Grok 4.5
1330.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1321.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1320.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1318.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1317.0
Kimi K2.6
1298.0
Design Arena: fullstack vs top 8 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1503.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1322.0
Claude Sonnet 5
1314.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1298.0
Claude Fable 5
1296.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1286.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1271.0
Kimi K2.6
1221.0
Design Arena: gamedev vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
1387.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1354.0
Claude Sonnet 5
1345.0
GPT-5.5
1344.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1339.0
MiMo-V2.5-Pro
1334.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1334.0
Kimi K2.6
1312.0
Design Arena: godotgamedev vs top 8 models
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1271.0
Kimi K2.5
1256.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1240.0
Z.ai: GLM 5
1231.0
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
1221.0
Z.ai: GLM 4.6
1220.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1219.0
Kimi K2.6
1216.0
Design Arena: htmlslides vs top 7 models
Claude Fable 5
1260.0
Kimi K2.6
1246.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1239.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1222.0
Kimi K2.7 Code
1211.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1205.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1204.0
Design Arena: mobileapps vs top 8 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1287.0
Claude Fable 5
1282.0
MiniMax: MiniMax M3
1273.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1259.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1259.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1255.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1243.0
Kimi K2.6
1228.0
Design Arena: pptxslides vs top 7 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1333.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1306.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1244.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1241.0
Kimi K2.6
1181.0
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
1164.0
GPT-5.5
1157.0
Design Arena: python-pptxslides vs top 7 models
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1336.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1298.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1258.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1247.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1209.0
Kimi K2.7 Code
1190.0
Kimi K2.6
1180.0
Design Arena: svg vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
1364.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1340.0
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1297.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1279.0
GPT-5.5
1277.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1274.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1273.0
Kimi K2.6
1228.0
Design Arena: uicomponent vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
1406.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1358.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1344.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1336.0
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
1331.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
1330.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1321.0
Kimi K2.6
1314.0
Design Arena: webapps vs top 8 models
Claude Sonnet 5
1351.0
Claude Fable 5
1338.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1326.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
1288.0
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1280.0
xAI: Grok 4.5
1270.0
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
1267.0
Kimi K2.6
1253.0
Design Arena: website vs top 8 models
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
1346.0
Claude Fable 5
1336.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
1331.0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
1329.0
xAI: Grok 4.5
1323.0
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
1320.0
Claude Sonnet 5
1314.0
Kimi K2.6
1311.0
Intelligence Index vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
59.9
GPT-5.6 Sol
58.9
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
55.7
GPT-5.6 Terra
55.0
GPT-5.5
54.8
xAI: Grok 4.5
53.8
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
53.5
Kimi K2.6
44.2
SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA vs top 1 models
Kimi K2.6
59.8
SWE-Bench Pro vs top 8 models
Claude Fable 5
80.3
Claude Opus 4.8
69.2
Grok 4.5
64.7
GPT-5.6 Sol
64.6
Claude Opus 4.7
64.3
GPT-5.6 Terra
63.4
Claude Sonnet 5
63.2
Kimi K2.6
27.3
SWE-Bench Verified vs top 7 models
Claude Fable 5
95.0
Claude Opus 4.8
88.6
Claude Sonnet 5
85.2
Ornith 1.0 397B
82.4
DeepSeek V4 Pro
80.6
Qwen3.7 Max
80.4
Kimi K2.6
80.2
Terminal-Bench vs top 8 models
GPT-5.6 Sol
88.8
Claude Fable 5
88.0
GPT-5.6 Terra
87.4
GPT-5.6 Luna
84.7
Grok 4.5
83.3
GPT-5.5
82.7
Muse Spark 1.1
80.0
Kimi K2.6
64.3