Kimi K2.6
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 processes text and image inputs to generate text outputs. It supports a context length of 262,144 tokens, tool use, and reasoning. Input pricing is $0.65 per million tokens, while output pricing is $3.41 per million tokens.
- tool use
- structured outputs
- reasoning
At a glance
Specifications
What the API gives you
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 236K tokens
- Input price
- $0.65 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $3.41 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.15 / 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Released
- Jan 1, 1970
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- Design Arena Coding
- 1273 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Full-stack Agent
- 1155 Elo2026-10-14
- Design Arena UI
- 1267 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Web-app Agent
- 1268 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Website
- 1269 Elo2026-10-20
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)
- 57.2% ± 2.92026-06-10evaluated 2026-06-10
- GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)
- 90.8% ± 1.72026-05-01evaluated 2026-05-01
- LiveBench Agentic Coding
- 46.9%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Coding
- 78.6%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Data Analysis
- 65.1%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Instruction Following
- 64.4%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Language
- 75.1%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Math
- 84.3%2026-10-18
- LiveBench Reasoning
- 79.4%2026-10-18
- LMArena Creative Writing
- 1433 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Instruction Following
- 1451 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Long Query
- 1468 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Math
- 1475 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Text
- 1461 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Text Factuality
- 1456 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Vision
- 1265 Elo2026-10-19
- LMArena Vision Diagrams
- 1293 Elo2026-10-19
- LMArena Vision OCR
- 1279 Elo2026-10-19
- LMArena WebDev
- 1509 Elo2026-10-19
- LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web
- 1521 Elo2026-10-19
- OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)
- 96.1% ± 2.42026-05-02evaluated 2026-05-02
- SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)
- 34.9% ± 1.52026-08-10evaluated 2026-08-10
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.
Open-weight model on Hugging Face.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Competition MathEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 4 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Business WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Creative WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Show all 39 tasks
- Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for WritingEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 5 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for a General AssistantEstablished evidence
100% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Code CompletionEstablished evidence
79% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingEstablished evidence
64% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Image UnderstandingEstablished evidence
61% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationEstablished evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationEstablished evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesEstablished evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMEstablished evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
53% of intended weighted task evidence across 3 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationEstablished evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Local LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
47% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeEstablished evidence
40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMEstablished evidence
40% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Agentic CodingEstablished evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputEstablished evidence
35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionEstablished evidence
35% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewEstablished evidence
33% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGEstablished evidence
29% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence
65% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence
65% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Vision & DocumentsProvisional evidence
60% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence
58% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Structured-output eval or VLMEvalKit tasks. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
47% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
39% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Search. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for High-Volume ExtractionProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Route reliability or Structured-output eval. 1 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsProvisional evidence
13% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Agent or LMArena Agent Task Outcome. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence
9% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 9 of 9 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.
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