Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.950
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.00
per 1M tokens
Blended
$1.71
blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output
Cached input
$0.160
17% of input — prompt caching
Price receipt
No confirmed receipt. We hold dated captures of Moonshot's pricing page, but none of them tied Kimi K2.6 to the price above on that page, so we do not claim this number is sourced. Check the provider's page directly before relying on it.
Overview
Kimi's latest multimodal model. $0.95/$4.00 per 1M; cached $0.16.
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Capabilities
struck through = not supportedBenchmark performance
accuracy % · higher is better- AA-Omniscience Index: 5.3 (−100–100)
- LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1460.4 ELO (Human preference)
- Ranks #20 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
- Ranks #61 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 7 independent measurements
- Ranks #90 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
- Strongest at Humanity's Last Exam — 54%, #12 of 65
342.6 tokens/sec output 0.68s latency to first token (TTFT)
Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard · updated · See full rankings →
Specifications
- Provider
- Moonshot
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Modality
- text, image, video
- Parameters
- Proprietary
- Open source
- Yes — open weights available
- Released
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Tags
Availability verified: — listed on Moonshot's own page