MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Analysis Summary
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #44 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.750 input and $3.50 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 strong reasoning, vision support, tool use, and a 262K context window at competitive pricing, with solid agentic and coding benchmarks for its tier.
Assessed May 5, 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 | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.75 | $0.000750 |
| Output | $3.50 | $0.003500 |
Live Performance
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