Moonshot AI: Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is a reasoning model from Moonshot AI released on Apr 20, 2026. It reads text, images and video and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 262K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.16, 83% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
59 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, SiliconFlow and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.275 per million tokens at routing.run.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.95 / $4 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 262K
- Released
- Apr 20, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Kimi K2.6 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.95 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $4 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.16 / 1M tokens | 83% off input |
Kimi K2.6 providers
59 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, SiliconFlow and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.275 per million tokens at routing.run. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moonshot AI First party | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | 262K |
| Deep Infra | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.15 | 262K | 16K |
| SiliconFlow | $0.77 | $3.40 | $0.14 | 262K | 262K |
| Novita AI | $0.80 | $3.40 | $0.16 | 262K | 262K |
| Azure | $0.95 | $4 | – | 262K | 262K |
| Baseten | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | 262K |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | 256K |
| Hugging Face | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | 262K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.95 | $4 | $0.16 | 262K | 262K |
| routing.run | $0.275 | $1.10 | – | 200K | 32K |
| Chutes | $0.45 | $1.95 | $0.045 | 262K | 66K |
| Cortecs | $0.475 | $2.97 | $0.10 | 256K | 256K |
Showing 12 of 59 providers: the lab first, then the major clouds, then the cheapest resellers.
What Kimi K2.6 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Kimi K2.6 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Kimi K2.6 questions
How much does the Kimi K2.6 API cost?
$0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.16. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Kimi K2.6?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 262,144 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Kimi K2.6?
59 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, SiliconFlow and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.275 per million tokens at routing.run. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Kimi K2.6 support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Kimi K2.6 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Kimi K2.6 released?
Apr 20, 2026, with training data up to Jan 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Kimi K2.6?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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