MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Image input Text input Text output
Author's Description

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...

Key Specifications
Cost
$$$$$
Context
262K
Released
Apr 20, 2026
Speed
Ability
Reliability
Supported Parameters

This model supports the following parameters:

Tool Choice Include Reasoning Tools Response Format Max Tokens Reasoning Structured Outputs Presence Penalty Stop Frequency Penalty
Features

This model supports the following features:

Structured Outputs Tools Reasoning Response Format
Performance Summary

MoonshotAI's Kimi K2.6, a multimodal model created on April 20, 2026, demonstrates exceptional reliability with a 99% success rate across 8 benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. However, its speed performance tends to be slower, ranking in the 15th percentile, and it is positioned at premium pricing levels, ranking in the 8th percentile. Despite its longer response times and higher cost, Kimi K2.6 exhibits remarkable accuracy in several key areas. It achieved perfect 100% accuracy in General Knowledge, Email Classification, and Reasoning, often being the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed in these categories. Its Instruction Following and Coding capabilities are strong, with 82% and 93% accuracy respectively, placing it in the top quartiles. Mathematics also shows robust performance at 94% accuracy. While its Hallucinations accuracy is 96%, indicating a good ability to acknowledge uncertainty, its Ethics performance at 99% is solid but places it in the mid-range compared to other models. The model's primary strengths lie in its high accuracy across complex reasoning, knowledge, and classification tasks, making it a powerful tool for applications requiring precision, despite its slower speed and premium cost.

Model Pricing

Current Pricing

Feature Price (per 1M tokens)
Prompt $0.95
Completion $4
Input Cache Read $0.16

Price History

Available Endpoints
Provider Endpoint Name Context Length Pricing (Input) Pricing (Output)
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.95 / 1M tokens $4 / 1M tokens
Novita
Novita | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.95 / 1M tokens $4 / 1M tokens
Cloudflare
Cloudflare | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.95 / 1M tokens $4 / 1M tokens
Parasail
Parasail | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.8 / 1M tokens $3.5 / 1M tokens
Io Net
Io Net | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.8 / 1M tokens $4 / 1M tokens
Phala
Phala | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $1.09 / 1M tokens $4.6 / 1M tokens
BaseTen
BaseTen | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.95 / 1M tokens $4 / 1M tokens
DeepInfra
DeepInfra | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.75 / 1M tokens $3.5 / 1M tokens
Together
Together | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $1.2 / 1M tokens $4.5 / 1M tokens
Inceptron
Inceptron | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-20260420 262K $0.8 / 1M tokens $3.5 / 1M tokens
Benchmark Results
Benchmark Category Reasoning Strategy Free Executions Accuracy Cost Duration
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