As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI, Kimi K2 family. Status: current. Type: multimodal model. Released: 2026-04. Training cutoff: not published.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi API (Moonshot) | `kimi-k2.6` | https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 | https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k2-6-quickstart |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | `kimi-k2.6` |  | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/text-generation-model |
| OpenRouter | `moonshotai/kimi-k2.6` |  | https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 |
| Web app |  |  | https://www.kimi.com |

## Pricing

- Input: $0.95 per 1M tokens
- Output: $4 per 1M tokens
- Cache read: $0.16 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: per 1M tokens (USD)
- Source: https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image, video
- Output: text
- Context window: 262,144 tokens
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: modified-mit

## What it has not seen

- No published training cutoff. Counted from its release (2026-04): at least 1,863 AI events since (426 major, 83 historic), as of 2026-11-13.
- Everything since March 2026: https://postcutoff.com/since/2026-03/

## What stands out

- 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: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
- Swarm-based task orchestration: Marketed for proactive autonomous execution and agent-swarm orchestration plus coding-driven design. Source: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6

## Notes

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).

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

```bash
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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/kimi-k2-6/