Kimi K2.6
Still offered on the API alongside K3 (only remaining non-coding K2-series model; kimi-k2.5 discontinued 2026-08-31). Release day not verified (HF 2026-04-14, OpenRouter 2026-04-20).
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Input
- text, image, video
- Output
- text
- License
- modified-mit
- Pricing
- input: $0.95 · output: $4 · cache read: $0.16 (per 1M tokens (USD)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi API (Moonshot) | kimi-k2.6 | https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 | docs |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | kimi-k2.6 | — | docs |
| OpenRouter | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | — |
| Hugging Face | — | huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | — |
| Web app | — | www.kimi.com | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Native multimodal open agentic model: 1T total / 32B active MoE with 400M vision encoder; text, image and video input; thinking and non-thinking modes. source
- Swarm-based task orchestration: Marketed for proactive autonomous execution and agent-swarm orchestration plus coding-driven design. source
Cheaper multimodal Kimi for chat, visual understanding and agent tasks with switchable thinking.
curl https://api.moonshot.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MOONSHOT_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"kimi-k2.6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Sources: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/models · https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat · https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6