moonshotai/kimi-k2.6Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot’s open-weights AI model, released Apr 20, 2026. It costs $0.95/M input and $4/M output tokens, and handles a 262K-token context window. Its strongest use case is math, where it ranks in the 69th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.
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.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Kimi K2.6 lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
Frontier of human expert knowledge
Factual accuracy & hallucination
Novel ML problem-solving
Scientific research coding
Real GitHub issue resolution
Human-rated web development
Olympiad-qualifier math
Research-level math problems
Hardest research math
Multi-step agentic tasks
Tool-agent-user reliability
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.
Kimi K2.6 is an AI model developed by Moonshot, part of the Kimi family, released Apr 20, 2026.
Kimi K2.6's list price from Moonshot is $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. The cheapest credible third-party provider on OpenRouter (DigitalOcean) serves it at $0.57/$2.40 per 1M.
Kimi K2.6 supports a context window of up to 262K tokens.
On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Kimi K2.6 scores 95.9% on τ²-bench, 96.1% on AIME 2024/2025, 90.8% on GPQA Diamond.
Kimi K2.6 is released with open weights (Open weights (unrestricted)), so the model can be downloaded and self-hosted.
Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Sep 17, 2026.