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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

by Moonshot AI

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is a large language model from Moonshot AI. It costs $0.950 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.

ReasoningTool callingStructured outputPrompt cachingOpen weightsimage input
Input / 1M tokens
$0.950
Output / 1M tokens
$4.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.160

On repeated prefixes

Context window
262K

tokens

Who serves it cheapest

20 hosts serve Kimi K2.6. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6, cheapest first
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextThroughputUptime 24h
DigitalOceanCheapest$0.570$2.40262K-84.3%
Baidufp4$0.580$2.44262K-100.0%
Decartfp4$0.587$2.47262K-99.9%
StreamLakefp8$0.598$2.52256K-97.4%
Inceptronint4$0.609$2.90262K-99.5%
Chutesint4$0.580$3.40262K-98.0%
CoreWeavefp4$0.650$3.41262K-99.8%
Crusoebf16$0.700$3.50262K-99.2%
SiliconFlowfp8$0.770$3.40262K-98.6%
DeepInfrafp4$0.750$3.50262K-98.8%
Veniceint4$0.750$3.50256K-96.9%
Parasailint4$0.750$3.50262K-99.2%
Novita$0.800$3.40262K-98.4%
GMICloudfp8$0.855$3.60262K-94.4%
AtlasCloudint4$0.950$4.00262K-94.0%
Cloudflare$0.950$4.00262K-99.8%
Moonshot AIint4$0.950$4.00262K-99.8%
BaseTenfp4$0.950$4.00262K-58.8%
Fireworks$0.950$4.00262K-1.0%
Phala$1.09$4.60262K-96.7%

The spread between DigitalOcean and Phala is 1.9× for identical weights. Quantization and context limits differ, so check both columns before switching.

Benchmarks

Independent scores published alongside the catalogue.

Coding index
61.8
Agentic index
22.1

About Kimi K2.6

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...

Specifications

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 specifications
Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6
ProviderMoonshot AI
Context window262K tokens
Max output236K tokens
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
Knowledge cutoff-
Open weightsYes - moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
ReleasedApril 20, 2026

Cheaper alternatives

Models that cost less than Kimi K2.6 while keeping at least half its context window and every input modality it supports.

Frequently asked

How much does MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 cost?

$0.950 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens. Cached input reads cost $0.160 per million tokens.

What is the context window of MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6?

262K tokens, with up to 236K tokens of output per request.

Which provider serves MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 cheapest?

DigitalOcean at $0.570 per million input tokens - 1.9× cheaper than Phala, the most expensive of the 20 hosts serving it.

Confirm against the source: Moonshot AI official pricing.