Kimi K2.6
AvailableA Moonshot AI model with a 256K-token context window, image input and tool calling. On the Kimi Open Platform API since April 20, 2026.
Access details: Kimi Open Platform API
The model ID to use in API requests.
kimi-k2.6Open weights on Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
Updated Oct 1, 2026
Capabilities & limits
- Context window
- 256K
- Maximum output
- Not published
- Image input
- Supported
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured output
- Supported
Pricing
USD / 1M tokens- Input
- $0.95
- Output
- $4.00
Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Moonshot AI's pricing page.
Full rate card 6 rates
All prices in USD.
Input tokens (cache miss)
$0.95 per 1M tokensCached input tokens
$0.16 per 1M tokens- cache hit
Output tokens
$4.00 per 1M tokensBatch input tokens (cache miss)
$0.57 per 1M tokens- Batch API
Batch cached input tokens
$0.10 per 1M tokens- Batch API
- cache hit
Batch output tokens
$2.40 per 1M tokens- Batch API
Prices exclude applicable taxes. Batch API cost is 60% of standard.
Price history
Oct 1, 2026
Input $0.95 per million tokens
Oct 1, 2026
Output $4.00 per million tokens
Technical details
- Parameters
- 1T
- Active parameters
- 32B
- Architecture
- Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
- Training / knowledge cutoff
- Not published
- Input modalities
- Text, image, video
- Output modalities
- Text
From Moonshot AI
Official announcement ↗How they describe it
Supports both visual and text input
What they say is new
stronger and more stable long-term code writing capabilities
Release & lifecycle
- First available
- Apr 20, 2026
- available
- As of Oct 1, 2026