Using Kimi K2.6 on OpenRouter

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.74/1M input, $3.49/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About OpenRouter

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Pricing on OpenRouter

Capabilities

About Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's latest agentic reasoning model, launched April 13 2026 as a code preview for Kimi Code subscribers. Built on a 1-trillion-parameter MoE architecture (32B active, 384 experts), it inherits K2.5's 256K context window and adds enhanced reliability for long-horizon agentic workflows — supporting 200–300 sequential tool calls without drift. Optimized for coding, multi-step agent planning, and vision-assisted tasks such as processing screenshots, PDFs, and spreadsheets.