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Kimi K2.6

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

kimi-k2.6
Type
Text
Quality
81 · Top 19% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
262,144 tokens
Input price
$0.95 / 1M tokens
Output price
$4.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.16 / 1M tokens
Cache write
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Parameters
1T (1,026,879,376,368)
Downloads
370K in the last 30 days
Likes
1.6K
Access to weights
Open download
Released
Apr 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Takes in
Text, Image, Video
Puts out
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
Yes
File attachments
Yes
Access
Open weights
License
Modified MIT
Rarity
Uncommon
Set number
884/1044
Open Moonshot docsWeights on Hugging FaceQuality 81Where to run it 69Evolution 3/5Race it 77 tok/sMeet its creatureBattle Sakana Namazu

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: platform.moonshot.ai.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Kimi K2.6, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 19% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #53.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

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Where to run it

66 providers sell Kimi K2.6 through an API, and 3 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

API providers

ProviderInputOutputContext
Alibaba Token PlanFreekimi-k2.6FreeFree262K
Alibaba Token Plan (China)Freekimi-k2.6FreeFree262K
KenariFreekimi-k2-6FreeFree262K
NvidiaFreemoonshotai/kimi-k2.6FreeFree262K
SCNet Token PlanFreeKimi-K2.6FreeFree262K
routing.runCheapest paidkimi-k2.6$0.28$1.10200K
NanoGPTmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.45$1.95262K
CrofAIkimi-k2.6$0.50$1.99262K
Cortecskimi-k2.6$0.47$2.97256K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)kimi-k2.6$0.60$3.05262K
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ProviderInputOutputContext
LLM Gatewayrunware/kimi-k2.6$0.60$3.05262K
Inceptronmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.53$3.39262K
SiliconFlowmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.77$3.40262K
Novita AImoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.80$3.40262K
CoreWeavemoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.65$3.41262K
Kilo Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.65$3.41262K
OpenRoutermoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.65$3.41262K
Crusoemoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.70$3.50262K
Lilacmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.70$3.50262K
Deep Inframoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.75$3.50262K
FastRoutermoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.75$3.50262K
Venice AIkimi-k2-6$0.75$3.50256K
GMI Cloudmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.85$3.6066K
EmpirioLabs AIkimi-k2-6$0.89$3.71256K
Infomaniakmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.74$3.72256K
NEAR AI Cloudmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.81$3.85262K
EBCloudKimi-K2.6$0.93$3.86262K
Alibaba (China)kimi-k2.6$0.93$3.86262K
302.AIkimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Abacusmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.95$4.00262K
AIHubMixkimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Ambientmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Aurikokimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Azurekimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Azure Cognitive Serviceskimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Basetenmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Clarifaimoonshotai/chat-completion/models/Kimi-K2_6$0.95$4.00262K
ClinePasscline-pass/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Cloudflare Workers AI@cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
DigitalOceankimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Eden AImoonshot/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
FrogBotkimi-k2-6$0.95$4.00256K
Merge Gatewaymoonshot/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Moonshot AIOfficialkimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Moonshot AI (China)kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Ofoxmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Ollama Cloudkimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
OpenCodekimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
OrcaRouterkimi/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Pioneermoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Requestykimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
SiliconFlow (China)Pro/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Tempr Gatewaymoonshot/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
TokenGomoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
Vercel AI Gatewaymoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
ZenMuxmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.95$4.00262K
MoarkKimi-K2.6$0.98$4.00262K
TensorXmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6$1.00$4.00262K
Poenovita/kimi-k2.6$0.96$4.04262K
Meliouskimi-k2.6$0.81$4.06256K
CrossModelmoonshot/kimi-k2.6$1.00$4.16262K
GreenPTkimi-k2.6$0.75$4.28262K
WaferKimi-K2.6$1.14$4.80262K
UnoRouterkimi-k2.6$1.27$5.34262K
evrocmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6$1.44$5.75262K
Privatemode AIkimi-k2.6$1.79$8.94256K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

HostInputOutputContextSpeedFirst token
NovitaTools$0.80$3.40262K35 tok/s1.4s
DeepInfraFastestTools$0.75$3.50262K77 tok/s0.4s
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