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Moonshot AI · Released Apr 20, 2026

Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

ReasoningOpen weightsVision
  • Top 26%OTIS Mock AIME
  • Top 28%GPQA Diamond
  • Top 29%SWE-bench Verified
  • Top 32%Vending-Bench 2
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Released
Apr 20 2026
Context window
262K 236K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.65 from Free
Output / 1M tokens
$3.41 from Free

Where to run it

75 providers compared

Free to try on Nvidia, Kenari — free endpoints are often limited-time and rate-limited. Included in SCNet Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China). Cheapest: routing.run at $0.28 / $1.10 per 1M input / output tokens — 87% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
Nvidiafree · may be limited-time Free Free —262K262K— Free
Kenarifree · may be limited-time Free Free —262K262K— Free
SCNet Token Plansubscription plan Plan Plan Plan262K262K— Plan
Alibaba Token Plansubscription plan Plan Plan Plan262K262K— Plan
Alibaba Token Plan (China)subscription plan Plan Plan Plan262K262K— Plan
routing.run $0.28 $1.10 —200K32K— Cheapest
ChutesINT4 $0.45 $1.95 $0.045262K66K100%24h +71%
DigitalOcean $0.57 $2.40 $0.11262K236K100%24h +114%
StreamLakeFP8 $0.60 $2.52 $0.10256K230K97.6%24h +124%
Cortecs $0.47 $2.97 $0.10256K256K— +128%
Kenari $0.57 $2.86 $0.29262K262K— +137%
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $0.60 $3.05 $0.13262K262K— +152%
InceptronINT4 $0.56 $3.20 $0.14262K236K99.9%24h +154%
CoreWeaveFP4 $0.65 $3.41 $0.15262K236K99.7%24h +178%
Kilo Gateway $0.65 $3.41 $0.15262K236K— +178%
CrusoeBF16 $0.70 $3.50 $0.35262K236K99.6%24h +191%
Lilac $0.70 $3.50 $0.20262K262K— +191%
SiliconFlowFP8 $0.77 $3.40 $0.14262K236K99.9%24h +197%
Melious $0.79 $3.37 $0.28256K256K— +197%
ParasailINT4 $0.75 $3.50 $0.16262K236K100%24h +199%
DeepInfraFP4 $0.75 $3.50 $0.15262K16K99.6%24h +199%
VeniceINT4 $0.75 $3.50 $0.16256K66K96.4%24h +199%
Venice AI $0.75 $3.50 $0.16256K66K— +199%
FastRouter $0.75 $3.50 $0.15262K262K— +199%
Novita $0.80 $3.40 $0.16262K236K100%24h +201%
Novita AI $0.80 $3.40 $0.16262K262K— +201%
Infomaniak $0.74 $3.72 —256K256K— +209%
GMICloudFP8 $0.85 $3.60 $0.14262K236K— +220%
NEAR AI Cloud $0.81 $3.85 $0.41262K262K— +226%
EmpirioLabs AI $0.89 $3.71 $0.18256K16K— +232%
EBCloud $0.93 $3.86 —262K262K— +245%
Alibaba (China) $0.93 $3.86 —262K16K— +245%
AtlasCloudINT4 $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K236K100%24h +256%
Cloudflare $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K236K100%24h +256%
Moonshot AIINT4 $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K236K100%24h +256%
BaiduFP4 $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K236K99.5%24h +256%
FrogBot $0.95 $4.00 $0.16256K128K— +256%
Vercel AI Gateway $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
LLM Gateway $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
TokenGo $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Baseten $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Clarifai $0.95 $4.00 —262K262K— +256%
Pioneer $0.95 $4.00 $0.34262K131K— +256%
Requesty $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
AIHubMix $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K33K— +256%
302.AI $0.95 $4.00 —262K262K— +256%
ZenMux $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Auriko $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
ClinePass $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Azure $0.95 $4.00 —262K262K— +256%
Azure Cognitive Services $0.95 $4.00 —262K262K— +256%
Abacus $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Tempr Gateway $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Hugging Face $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Ollama Cloud $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Cloudflare Workers AI $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K256K— +256%
Merge Gateway $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Ofox $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Ambient $0.95 $4.00 $0.20262K262K— +256%
OrcaRouter $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K33K— +256%
OpenCode $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K66K— +256%
Eden AI $0.95 $4.00 $0.16262K262K— +256%
Poe $0.96 $4.04 $0.16262K262K— +259%
Moark $0.98 $4.00 —262K262K— +261%
Moonshot AI (China) $0.97 $4.03 $0.16262K262K— +261%
SiliconFlow (China) $0.97 $4.04 $0.16262K262K— +261%
TensorX $1.00 $4.00 $0.25262K262K— +264%
CrossModel $1.00 $4.16 $0.18262K262K— +272%
Phala $1.09 $4.60 $0.37262K236K100%24h +309%
Wafer $1.14 $4.80 $0.19262K66K— +327%
UnoRouter $1.27 $5.34 —262K262K— +375%
NanoGPT $1.50 $5.25 $0.38262K66K— +406%
evroc $1.44 $5.75 —262K262K— +423%
Thinking Machines $2.21 $5.49 $0.44131K131K— +529%
GreenPT $1.66 $8.78 —262K262K— +614%
Privatemode AI $1.79 $8.94 $0.17256K262K— +644%

Value

Price vs. performance

10 models score higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
23.2%47.6%72.0%96.4% $0.001$0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.15/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $1.36/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 93.2% · $0.30/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.005/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.079/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.047/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.034/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.44/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $1.40/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.08/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.14/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.50/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $1.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in o3 (OpenAI) — 81.8% · $2.00/1M in o4 Mini (OpenAI) — 79.6% · $1.10/1M in GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — 66.9% · $2.00/1M in GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — 65.8% · $0.40/1M in GPT-4.1 Nano (OpenAI) — 48.9% · $0.10/1M in Gemma 3 4B (Google) — 23.2% · $0.04/1M in Gemma 3 12B (Google) — 39.5% · $0.05/1M in Gemma 3 27B (Google) — 47.7% · $0.08/1M in Qwen-Plus (Qwen) — 48.1% · $0.26/1M in o3 Mini (OpenAI) — 77.0% · $1.10/1M in Phi 4 (Microsoft) — 56.1% · $0.07/1M in DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) — 71.2% · $0.26/1M in o1 (OpenAI) — 76.8% · $15.00/1M in Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — 47.4% · $0.10/1M in GPT-4o (2024-11-20) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in Mistral Large 2407 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (Meta) — 23.9% · $0.027/1M in GPT-4o (2024-08-06) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — 44.2% · $0.40/1M in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta) — 27.0% · $0.05/1M in GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) (OpenAI) — 37.7% · $0.15/1M in Gemma 2 27B (Google) — 36.5% · $0.65/1M in GPT-4o (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $2.50/1M in GPT-4o (2024-05-13) (OpenAI) — 49.2% · $5.00/1M in GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI) — 46.6% · $10.00/1M in Mistral Large (Mistral) — 51.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $1.00/1M in GPT-3.5 Turbo (OpenAI) — 28.0% · $0.50/1M in GPT-4 (OpenAI) — 35.7% · $30.00/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 Other Moonshot AI Other labs Value frontier · GPQA Diamond vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.

Benchmarks

19 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedSoftware engineering · Real GitHub issues fixed in Python repos 76.6% #9of 32 Claude Opus 4.783.5%
GBAEvalSoftware engineering · Build a Game Boy Advance emulator from scratch 0.9% #17of 23 Claude Opus 579.6%
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 53.5% #34of 102 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
OSWorld 2.0Agents & computer use · Long real-world desktop and web tasks 4.6% #7of 9 Claude Opus 531.4%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $6,205 #19of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
GDP.pdfWriting & content · Answer questions about real professional PDFs 12.0% #35of 38 GPT-6.1 Sol35.0%
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 34.9% #49of 79 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1509 #44of 90 Claude Opus 5.51820
Blueprint-Bench 2Design & visual · Turn apartment photos into 2D floor plans 3.9% #28of 32 Gemini 4 Argon54.4%
Furniture AssemblyDesign & visual · Spot mistakes in photos of IKEA builds 21.7% #31of 34 Claude Opus 5.583.3%
ExploitBenchCybersecurity · Exploit real, hardened security vulnerabilities 18.4% #5of 8 GPT-5.547.4%
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 90.8% #34of 122 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 8.0% #55of 111 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%
Chess PuzzlesReasoning & knowledge · Find the single best move in 100 new puzzles 20.0% #62of 83 GPT-6 Astra76.0%
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 37.3% #61of 123 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%
FrontierMathMaths · Expert-written problems, undergrad to early research (tiers 1–3) 57.2% #44of 87 GPT-6.1 Sol93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4Maths · Exceptionally hard research-level problems 25.6% #40of 64 GPT-6.1 Sol100.0%
ProofBenchMaths · Graduate maths proofs verified in Lean 4 16.0% #56of 70 Claude Sonnet 5.5100.0%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 96.1% #31of 120 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Developer
Moonshot AI
Release date
Apr 20, 2026 ·
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
235,929 tokens
API price
$0.65 / $3.41 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
75
Input types
text, image
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Free tier
No

Release date and prices from OpenRouter's catalog; providers from OpenRouter and models.dev. Buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Speed, latency and uptime are measured on OpenRouter only; uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.