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Why use Kimi K2.6 on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Kimi K2.6 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.73/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Kimi K2.6 across 9 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
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moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6", not the LLMReference slug "kimi-k2-6".
Compare Kimi K2.6 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.95 | $4.00 |
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
| Moonshot AI Kimi | $0.95 | $4.00 |
| Fireworks AI | $0.95 | $4.00 |
| OpenRouter | $0.73 | $3.49 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.73 |
| Output tokens | $3.49 |
Capabilities
About Kimi K2.6
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.