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Kimi K2.6

Cheaper multimodal Kimi for chat, visual understanding and agent tasks with switchable thinking.

Model idkimi-k2.6

Price$0.95 in, $4 out per 1M tokens

Checked29 September 2026

No published training cutoff

At least1,863events since its release in April 2026

83 historic, 426 major. 197 days of news.

Moonshot AI doesn’t publish a training cutoff, so we count from its release date. The real gap is larger.

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How to call it

5 ways to use Kimi K2.6, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Kimi K2.6
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Kimi API (Moonshot) kimi-k2.6 https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 platform.kimi.ai
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio kimi-k2.6 alibabacloud.com
OpenRouter moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 openrouter.ai
Hugging Face huggingface.co
Web app kimi.com

Pricing

Prices for Kimi K2.6
Input$0.95 per 1M tokens
Output$4 per 1M tokens
Cache read$0.16 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD)”.

Source: platform.kimi.ai, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images and video
Output
Text
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
Not published
Open weights
Yes
Licence
Modified MIT
Training cutoff
Not published
Released
April 2026
Status
Current
Type
Multimodal model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • 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: huggingface.co

  • Swarm-based task orchestration

    Marketed for proactive autonomous execution and agent-swarm orchestration plus coding-driven design.

    Source: huggingface.co

Notes

Still offered on the API alongside K3 (only remaining non-coding K2-series model; kimi-k2.5 discontinued 2026-08-31).

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

Not yet checked against an official source: Release day not verified (HF 2026-04-14, OpenRouter 2026-04-20).