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Kimi K2.6

Available

A 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-k2.6

Open 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 tokens

Cached input tokens

$0.16 per 1M tokens
  • cache hit

Output tokens

$4.00 per 1M tokens

Batch 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

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

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Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. Moonshot AI's own pages have the latest.