MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 sits in the Frontier tier on our leaderboard, ranked #8 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.730 input and $3.49 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 delivers world-class reasoning, strong coding and agentic performance, vision support, and a 262K context at competitive pricing.
Assessed May 14, 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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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
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| Provider | moonshotai |
| Release Date | April 20, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 262,142 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.73 | $0.000730 |
| Output | $3.49 | $0.003490 |
Live Performance
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