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Kimi K2.6

by Moonshot

Current mid tier open weights mid tier
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Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.950

per 1M tokens

Output

$4.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$2.48

avg of input & output $/1M

Cached input

$0.160

17% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Moonshot pricing · read Jun 25, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-01

Available on 2 hosts

cheapest blended first · $ per 1M tokens

Kimi K2.6 is sold by 2 providers. Prices are per 1M tokens (blended = avg of input & output). The first-party row is the model maker; “vs first-party” shows each host’s blended price relative to it.

Kimi K2.6 price on every host still selling it, per 1M tokens, cheapest blended first
Host Input Output Blended vs first-party
Fireworks details → $0.950 $4.00 $2.48 0%
Moonshot first-party $0.950 $4.00 $2.48 —
Each host links to its provider page and official pricing. Prices refresh twice daily. MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-01

Overview

Kimi's latest multimodal model. $0.95/$4.00 per 1M; cached $0.16.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 3/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio Video ✓ PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score76.2%
Perf per $/Mtok30.8
GPQA Diamond
90.5%
SWE-Bench Verified vendor
40%
BrowseComp
83.2%
OSWorld-Verified
73.1%
Humanity's Last Exam
54%
ARC-AGI 2 vendor
22%
AIME 2025 vendor
62%
MMMLU vendor
76%
BFCL vendor
65%
HumanEval
80.2%
MATH 500 vendor
72%
AIME 2026 *
96.4%
Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 44.2 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 30.3 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 6.4 (−100–100)
  • LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1460.7 ELO (Human preference)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #21 of 68 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #38 of 133 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 9 independent measurements
  • Ranks #66 of 133 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at Humanity's Last Exam — 54%, #7 of 44

342.6 tokens/sec output 0.68s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated Aug 1, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Moonshot
Context window
262K tokens
Modality
text, image, video
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Oct 1, 2025
Status
Current
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Tags
open-weightsmid-tiercachingmultimodal

Availability verified: Not re-verified. We have no recent evidence that Moonshot still lists this model — treat availability as unconfirmed.

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