Kimi K2.6
Provider：Moonshot AI
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...
Key specs
- Context：262.1K
- Max output：235.9K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-04-20
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.950 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$4.00 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.160 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$1.71 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.032/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.024/call）
- Chat & Support：FAQ auto-response, multi-turn dialogue, emotion detection — e-commerce, finance, gov.（≈ $0.0080/call）
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Kimi K2.6? Input price $0.950 / 1M tokens, output price $4.00 / 1M tokens, blended about $1.71 / 1M tokens. Refer to Moonshot AI’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Kimi K2.6 support? Context window is 262.1K, max output about 235.9K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Kimi K2.6 best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Kimi K2.6 fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Chat & Support. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Kimi K2.6 support? Supports Text, Image modality.
- Is Kimi K2.6 a free model? Kimi K2.6 is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Kimi K2.6? Kimi K2.6 is offered by Moonshot AI.
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