MoonshotAi

Kimi K2.6

MoonshotAiBalanced
ThinkingTool UseVisionStructured Output

About this model

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...

Performance Tier

Balanced

Kimi K2.6 is a balanced model from MoonshotAi : strong performance at a reasonable price.

Strong cost-performance ratio. Reliable for most professional use cases without premium pricing.

Pricing

This model is included in Elosia plans
Affordable

Low cost. Suitable for sustained use and high-volume interactions.

Typeper 1M tokens
Input (prompt)$0.560
Output (completion)$2.36
Cache read$0.094

Capabilities

Context Length262K
Max Output Tokens262K
TokenizerOther
Inputtext, image
Outputtext
Release DateApril 20, 2026

Benchmarks

General Intelligence
MMLU
Not reported
GPQA Diamond
90.5%
Mathematics
MATH-500
Not reported
AIME 2026
96.4%
Programming
HumanEval
Not reported
SWE-bench Verified
80.2%
SWE-bench Multilingual
76.7%
Reasoning
Humanity's Last Exam
54%
Multimodal
MMMU-Pro
79.4%
Agentic
SWE-bench Pro
58.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
66.7%

Where does Kimi K2.6 stand?

Compare its performance index against every other model.

View the performance leaderboard

Recommended Use Cases

CodingAnalysisResearchGeneral Chat

Strengths

  • Top-tier agentic coding — SWE-bench Verified 80.2%
  • Open-weight 1T MoE (32B active) with 256K context window
  • Excellent graduate-level reasoning (GPQA Diamond 90.5%)
  • Strong long-horizon task orchestration via agent swarm

Limitations

  • Moonshot official evaluation focused on agentic and reasoning benchmarks — MMLU and MATH-500 are not part of the reported suite
  • Smaller Western ecosystem than Claude or GPT families
  • Superseded by Kimi K3 as Moonshot's flagship

Frequently asked questions

Resources

This model may use your data for training

Similar Models