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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

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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 can convert prompts and visual inputs into production-ready interfaces. Its agent swarm architecture scales to hundreds of parallel sub-agents for autonomous task decomposition - delivering documents, websites, and spreadsheets in a single run without human oversight.

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In / Out Price

$0.4835 / $2.71per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 20, 2026

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Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Benchmark score summary for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 (Artificial Analysis and Design Arena)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 Intelligence Index27.5
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 Coding Index61.8
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 Agentic Index22.1
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 GPQA Diamond91.1%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 HLE37.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 IFBench76.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 τ²-Bench Telecom95.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 AA-LCR81.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 GDPval-AA29.8%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 CritPt8.0%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 SciCode51.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 Terminal-Bench Hard43.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 AA-Omniscience Accuracy32.6%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate59.5%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond78.8%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) HLE19.6%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) IFBench44.3%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom93.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR69.7%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) CritPt1.4%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard37.9%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy24.3%
Artificial AnalysisKimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate55.8%
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Agenticgamedev Elo1141
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Agentichtmlslides Elo1248
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Agenticslides Elo1187
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Agenticslides(Html) Elo1252
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Agenticslides(Python-Pptx) Elo1186
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Androidnative Elo1176
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Full Stack Elo1165
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Godotgamedev Elo1159
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo1187
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo1180
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Pptxslides Elo1181
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo1180
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo1127
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Agents Arena Webapps Elo1268
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena 3D Elo1296
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena Asciiart Elo1183
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena Code Categories Elo1287
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1266
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena Game Development Elo1274
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena SVG Elo1207
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena UI Component Elo1281
Design ArenaKimi K2.6 Models Arena Website Elo1282

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

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Throughput

66tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.44s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchTogether86.0%--SiliconFlow89.0%73.8%Moonshot AI86.6%75.8%NovitaAI85.7%74.4%CoreWeave85.8%72.8%
+15 more providers
Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.

100.00%

Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.

99.87%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.87%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.86%
Without Routing
93.99%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your entire codebase, plans and executes changes across files, runs tests, and iterates on failures, all from natural language prompts.
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Frequently asked questions

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 can convert prompts and visual inputs into production-ready interfaces.

Kimi K2.6 costs $0.4835/M input tokens and $2.71/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.0927/M tokens.

Kimi K2.6 has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 262,144 completion tokens.

Yes. Kimi K2.6 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Kimi K2.6 accepts text and images as input and returns text.

Kimi K2.6 is served by 20 providers on OpenRouter: Inceptron, Baidu Qianfan, DigitalOcean, Chutes, Decart, StreamLake, CoreWeave, Crusoe and 12 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Kimi K2.6 was released on April 20, 2026.

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