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Kimi K2.6

API ID kimi-k2.6

kimi-k2.6 is a Moonshot AI model, released April 2026. Standard price: $0.95 input and $4.00 output per 1M tokens.

Status
Active
Released
April 2026
Shutdown
none announced
Replacement
—

No deprecation or shutdown date has been announced as of October 15, 2026.

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them
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Comparing with Kimi K2.5, the previous model in this line. A score is compared only with the same benchmark from the same source, at the same setting where both have it. Full comparison: prices, limits, features

Arena

ArenaKimi K2.6Kimi K2.5ChangeRankDateSource
Text
By category
  • Math 1479 rank 38 vs 1471 (+8, within range) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Creative writing 1433 rank 70 vs 1423 (+10, within range) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Instruction following 1456 rank 57 vs 1439 (+17) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Hard prompts 1486 rank 57 vs 1471 (+15) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Long prompts 1478 rank 50 vs 1458 (+20) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Multi-turn 1461 rank 75 vs 1452 (+9, within range) at no setting (vs thinking)
  • Expert 1503 rank 37 vs 1482 (+21) at no setting (vs thinking)
1461 ±41450 ±3+1159 of 415
40,030 votes		Oct 13, 2026source
Text: Coding1516 ±71504 ±14+12
within range		44 of 410
11,100 votes		Oct 13, 2026source
WebDev1509 ±71436 ±5+7355 of 142
10,192 votes		Oct 13, 2026source
Vision1265 ±71252 ±6+13
within range		41 of 165
16,379 votes		Oct 9, 2026source
Document1450 ±81436 ±7+14
within range		32 of 44
11,291 votes		Sep 13, 2026source

Rated as kimi-k2.6; Kimi K2.5 as kimi-k2.5-thinking. Some were rated at different settings; ratings on one arena share one scale, so the difference still reads directly. Ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text, Vision and Document are style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Epoch AI

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Kimi K2.5ChangeSettingRunSource
FrontierMath Tier 425.6%not runJun 10, 2026source
FrontierMath Tiers 1-357.2%not runJun 10, 2026source
GPQA Diamond90.8%not runMay 1, 2026source
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202596.1%not runMay 2, 2026source
SimpleQA Verified34.9%34.3%+0.6 ptsAug 10, 2026source
SWE-bench Verified76.7%73.8%+2.9 ptsMay 8, 2026source

Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates
PlatformPlatform IDStateShutdownTime leftReplacementSource
Microsoft Foundryversion 2026-04-20Kimi-K2.6ActiveApr 16, 2027183 days—source

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use Moonshot AI's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00Oct 2026In $0.95Out $4.00Oct 5, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026: Input $0.95, Output $4.00
$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00Oct 2026In $0.95Out $4.00Oct 5, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026: Input $0.95, Output $4.00

We started recording this model's prices on Oct 5, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.

Show as a table
FromTypePrice
Oct 5, 2026Input$0.95
Oct 5, 2026Output$4.00

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier
TypePrice $/1MIn effect
Standard
input$0.95
cached input$0.16
output$4.00
Batch
input$0.57
cached input$0.10
output$2.40

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