MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 sits in the Frontier tier on our leaderboard, ranked #9 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.745 input and $4.66 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Kimi K2.6 from MoonshotAI is a genuinely impressive model with world-class reasoning, strong coding and agentic performance, vision support, and a 256K context window ā placing it among the top models in the field; however, businesses in the UK and Western markets should note that availability and enterprise support may be more limited compared to established Western providers, which tempers its practical score slightly.
Assessed April 24, 2026
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Performance Profile
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and..
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Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
This model was released recently. Independent benchmark evaluations are typically completed within days of release ā these figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as testing is finalised.
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
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| Provider | moonshotai |
| Release Date | April 20, 2026 |
| Context Length | 256,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 65,536 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.74 | $0.000745 |
| Output | $4.66 | $0.004655 |
Live Performance
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