Kimi K2.6
Summary
Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight language model from Moonshot AI, released on 21 Apr 2026. It accepts text, images and video and generates text, with a 262K-token context window and up to 262K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.77 per million input tokens and $3.40 per million output tokens (SiliconFlow), across 10 providers we track.
Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Moonshot AI |
|---|---|
| Release date | 21 Apr 2026 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | modified-mit [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 1T [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 262K (262,144 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 262K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2025 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text, images and video [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | Yes [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Structured output | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 [Hugging Face] |
Kimi K2.6 API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.15 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| SiliconFlow moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | $0.77 | $3.40 | $0.14 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Novita AI moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | $0.80 | $3.40 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Moonshot AI API kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Azure AI Foundry kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | – | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Baseten moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Vercel AI Gateway moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| OpenRouter moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K) and can generate up to 262,144 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Kimi K2.6 API cost?
Through Moonshot AI API, Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.77 input / $3.40 output through SiliconFlow. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Kimi K2.6 open source?
Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 under the modified-mit license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Kimi K2.6 released?
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on 21 Apr 2026, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Kimi K2.6?
We track Kimi K2.6 on 10 providers: DeepInfra, SiliconFlow, Novita AI, Moonshot AI API, Azure AI Foundry, Cloudflare Workers AI, Hugging Face Inference Providers, Baseten, Vercel AI Gateway, OpenRouter.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.
Sources
- https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/moonshotai/models/kimi-k2.6.toml
- https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/deepinfra/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/siliconflow/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/novita-ai/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/azure/models/kimi-k2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/cloudflare-workers-ai/models/@cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/huggingface/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/baseten/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/vercel/models/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.toml