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Moonshot Kimi K2.6
moonshotai·moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-3·GA·Open weights·kimi-k2 series
Kimi multimodal agent model for visual understanding, coding, and planning
At a glance
Reference price$0.929 / $3.86 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.929 / $3.86
Alibaba (China) First-party
Context262,144
Output limit16,384
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImageVideo
Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2026-04-21 / 2026-04-21
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba (China) kimi-k2.6 | First-party | $0.929 | $3.86 | — | — | 262,144 | 16,384 |
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Your usage cost
1Alibaba (China)$378.70
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Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≤ 81,920
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