Kimi K2.6

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6, released by MoonshotAI on 2026-04-20, accepts text and image inputs and produces text output. It supports tool usage, reasoning capabilities, and provides open weights, with a context length of 262,144 tokens. Pricing is $0.684 per million input tokens and $3.42 per million output tokens.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning
  • open-weight

At a glance

providermoonshotai
releasedApr 20, 2026
context262K
input / M$0.68

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
262K tokens
Max output
262K tokens
Input price
$0.68 / 1M tokens
Output price
$3.42 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.14 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image → text
Knowledge cutoff
Released
Apr 20, 2026

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

  1. #2Best Local LLM for Coding

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

LMArena Agent
-2.12026-07-13
LMArena Agent
-2.32026-07-20
LMArena Text
1455 Elo2026-07-16
LMArena Vision
1283 Elo2026-07-12
LMArena WebDev
1515 Elo2026-07-16
LMArena WebDev
1515 Elo2026-07-20

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open.

Open-weight model on Hugging Face.

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