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Kimi K2.6OPEN
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.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $1.34 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 10% of the 200 open-weight models tracked here
- 6 of 9 Moonshot AI models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Kimi K2.6, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
About this model
Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight AI model by Moonshot AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 is an AI language model from Moonshot AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free.
Is Kimi K2.6 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Kimi K2.6 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.65 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens.
What is Kimi K2.6 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 91.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 37.5%, Long Context Reasoning 81%, SciCode 51.5%, IFBench 76%, τ²-Bench 95.9%, τ-Bench Banking 23.3%, Terminal-Bench 65.9%, Terminal-Bench Hard 43.9%. It is particularly used for code generation.
Can I self-host Kimi K2.6?
Yes. Kimi K2.6 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.