Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context
Kimi K2.6 by moonshotai is offered by 74 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 68 of them. Its official list price is $0.95 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is DevPass (LLM Gateway) at $0.22 / $1.14 per 1M, about 8.1× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 2 free ($0) channels and 3 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 45.1 on the Intelligence Index, with 61.8 for coding and 31.2 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.449 per 1M, that is roughly 100 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 33 tokens per second, with 2.86s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.3886, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 65,536 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Video, and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-01.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Token Plan | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| Kenari kimi-k2-6 | Gateway | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| Nvidia | First-party | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | deprecated | |
| SCNet Token Plan Kimi-K2.6 | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| Alibaba Token Plan (China) | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.22 | $1.14 | $0.048 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| LLM Gateway | Gateway | $0.22 | $1.14 | $0.048 | — | 262,144 | 98,304 | |
| routing.run | Gateway | $0.275 | $1.10 | — | — | 200,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Vultr moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 | Cloud | $0.30 | $1.20 | — | — | 262,144 | 131,072 | |
| CrofAI | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.99 | $0.05 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Moonshot AI (China)Official | First-party | $0.95 | $4.00 | $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.
5 more channels offer $0 (Alibaba Token Plan, Kenari, Nvidia etc.); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 80.2 | resolved | Source ↗ |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index | harness: Claude Code | 50.5 | average pass@1 | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | harness: Claude Code | 59.8 | pass@1 | Source ↗ |
| SWE-Bench Pro | harness: Claude Code · dataset: hard-aa | 27.3 | pass@1 | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench | harness: Claude Code · v2.1 | 64.3 | pass@1 | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
17 / 74 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).