Kimi K2.6
Kimi general-purpose model with stronger long-horizon coding, instruction following and agent execution.
Specs
- Context
- 262.1K
- Max output
- —
- Input price
- $0.95/ 1M tokens
- Output price
- $4/ 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-04-20
Context
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max input
- —
- Max output
- —
Pricing · USD / 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.95
- Output
- $4
- Cache read
- $0.16
- Cache write
- —
Modalities
- Input
- TextImageVideo
- Output
- Text
API
- API types
Reasoning
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Levels
- —
Info
- Status
- Active
- Released
- 2026-04-20
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
Features
- Confirmed
How to call
1 provider
moonshotmodel = kimi-k2.6reasoning = thinking.type
chat
POSThttps://api.moonshot.ai/v1/chat/completions
messages
POSThttps://api.moonshot.ai/anthropic/v1/messages
JSON
Standard format
{
"id": "kimi-k2.6",
"object": "model",
"created": 1776643200,
"owned_by": "moonshot",
"name": "Kimi K2.6",
"api": {
"types": [
"chat",
"messages"
]
},
"limits": {
"context": 262144,
"input": null,
"output": null
},
"modalities": {
"input": [
"text",
"image",
"video"
],
"output": [
"text"
]
},
"reasoning": {
"supported": true,
"efforts": []
},
"pricing": {
"currency": "USD",
"unit": "1M_tokens",
"input": 0.95,
"output": 4,
"cache_read": 0.16,
"cache_write": null
},
"features": [
"tools",
"caching"
],
"info": {
"status": "active",
"release_date": "2026-04-20",
"knowledge_cutoff": null,
"description": "Kimi general-purpose model with stronger long-horizon coding, instruction following and agent execution.",
"docs": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k2-6-quickstart",
"verified_at": "2026-10-11"
}
}Official sources
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Model List | Kimi API Platformplatform.kimi.ai2026-10-10Chat Model Pricing | Kimi API Platformplatform.kimi.ai2026-10-10Kimi K2.6 Quickstart | Kimi API Platformplatform.kimi.ai2026-10-10Kimi K2.6 | Kimi Blogwww.kimi.com2026-10-10API Overview | Kimi API Platformplatform.kimi.ai2026-10-11Use Kimi in Claude Code | Kimi API Platformplatform.kimi.ai2026-10-11