Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI (Kimi)'s language model with a 262K context window and up to 262K output tokens, available from 8 providers, starting at $0.8 / 1M input and $3.40 / 1M output. An open-source native multimodal agentic LLM specializing in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.
Specifications
Canonical IDmoonshot-kimi-k2-6
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorMoonshot AI (Kimi)Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output262K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFTextVideo
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters1.06T
HuggingFace Likes568
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)8,241
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)8,241
Release Date · 3 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
44.2
#21
Coding Index
61.8
#18
GPQA
0.9
#16
HLE
0.4
#24
IFBench
0.8
#21
Time to First Token
1.14s
#386
SciCode
0.5
#15
LCR
0.7
#29
TerminalBench Hard
0.4
#27
TAU2
1.0
#18
Output TPS
39.4
#237

Capabilities

Input4/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
kimi-k2.6
$0.894$3.71N/A$0.447$1.86
Azure AI Foundry logo
Azure AI Foundry
azure_ai/kimi-k2.6
$0.95$4.00N/A
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/kimi-k2p6
$0.95$4.00$0.16
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
fireworks_ai:accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p6
$0.95$4.00N/A
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
novita:moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
$0.8$3.40N/A
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
together_ai:moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
$1.20$4.50N/A
Moonshot AI (Kimi) logo
Moonshot AI (Kimi)
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
$0.95$4.00$0.16
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
$0.95$4.00$0.16
Tensormesh
tensormesh/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
$0.96$4.00N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
$0.95$4.00$0.16

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Kimi K2.6, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 2541 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

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FP16 (full precision)
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No GPU instances fit Kimi K2.6 at FP16 precision — try a lower precision such as INT4.

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Kimi K2.7 Code262K$0.750$3.50Available
Kimi K2.6262K$0.800$3.40Current
Kimi K2.5262K$0.500$2.80Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p6
azure_ai/kimi-k2.6
cloudflare/@cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p6
fireworks_ai/kimi-k2p6
kimi-k2-6
kimi-k2-6-non-reasoning
kimi-k2.6
moonshot-kimi-k2-6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6:free
tensormesh/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6