Sources & verification notes

Kimi K2.6

• Exact identifier & access

  Identity and lifecycle apply to this exact identifier and serving surface.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• First availability

  Effective Apr 20, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  The K2.6 blog, dated April 20, 2026, says the model is open-sourced; the Hugging Face repo's first commit is dated April 14, 2026, before the blog.

  • Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding ↗Moonshot AI · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
  • Kimi Research and Tech Blog index ↗Moonshot AI · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 commit history ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Availability status

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Capabilities & limits

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  Context length as given on the model card. The model card says K2.6 shares K2 Thinking's interleaved thinking and multi-step tool call design; the response_format guide documents structured output for kimi-k2.6 (unstable with complex schemas). No maximum generation length is stated.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026
  • Kimi API Platform: response_format guide ↗Moonshot AI · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Input price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Output price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Reference price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  The developer's own API price for kimi-k2.6, which serves this model (https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6). Model card says Kimi-K2.6's API is on platform.moonshot.ai; kimi-k2.6 is the API's only K2.6 id.

  • Kimi Open Platform API pricing for kimi-k2.6 ↗Moonshot AI · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Model card

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Official announcement

  Effective Apr 20, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding ↗Moonshot AI · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Provider description

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Provider comparison

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• License

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 model card ↗Moonshot AI (Hugging Face) · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026