Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 262k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
Cheapest of 8 routes · Novita AI
About
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's multimodal agentic coding model, released April 20 2026 under a Modified MIT license. Built on a 1-trillion-parameter MoE architecture (32B active, 384 experts with 8 selected per token plus 1 shared expert, 61 layers), it features a 262K context window and up to 65,536 output tokens. Supports native image and video inputs (screenshots, PDFs, spreadsheets). Designed for long-horizon coding with agent swarms of up to 300 sub-agents and 4,000 coordinated steps; Moonshot AI cites 200–300 sequential tool calls without task drift. Key benchmarks: SWE-bench Verified 80.2%, SWE-bench Pro 58.6%, LiveCodeBench v6 89.6%, GPQA Diamond 90.5%, Terminal-Bench 2.0 66.7%. Chatbot Arena Elo 1454 (2026-04-28 snapshot).
Kimi K2.6 is an open-source model in the Kimi K2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 262k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA NIM, Moonshot AI Kimi, and 5 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.73 input and $3.49 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include SWE-bench Verified 80.2, Chatbot Arena 1462.0, and Google-Proof Q&A 90.5.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ D4 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Q/$ C1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 8Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.800 | $3.40 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.730 | $3.49 | Serverless |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.950 | $4.00 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.950 | $4.00 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(10)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2 | SWE-bench Verified | https://www.swebench.com/verified.html |
| Chatbot Arena | 1462.0 | — | https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 90.5 | — | https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ |
| MMLU PRO | 84.6 | — | https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ |
| HumanEval | 92.0 | — | https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ |
| SWE-bench Pro | 58.6 | — | https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ |
| Instruction-Following Evaluation | 89.8 | — | https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ |
| LiveCodeBench | 89.6 | v6 | https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 66.7 | — | https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 76.7 | — | https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 |
Compare Kimi K2.6 to GPT-5.5 head-to-head for benchmarks, pricing, and full specs side by side. On NVIDIA NIM, see pricing and specs or the setup guide (catalog ID moonshotai/kimi-k2.6).
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(10)
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Cheapest of 8 routes · Novita AI