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Kimi K2.6 (NovitaAI)
moonshotai·moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-4·GA·Open weights·kimi-k2 series
Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context
At a glance
Reference price$0.80 / $3.40 per 1M
Cache read $0.16 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.80 / $3.40
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context262,144
Output limit262,144
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway novita/kimi-k2.6 | Gateway | $0.80 | $3.40 | $0.16 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$253.20
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = max
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended