
Kimi K2.6
Multimodal Kimi workhorse for agent loops, coding tasks, and visual context
- Context
- 262K
- Released
- 5mo ago
- Parameters
- 1T
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.65
- Output / 1M tokens
- $3.41
- Cached input / 1M tokens
- $0.15
Sources:models.devOpenRouter
Benchmarks
DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.
Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.
Other published benchmarks
| Evaluation | Reported score and source |
|---|---|
| FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private | |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private | |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | |
| FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | |
| GPQA diamond | |
| OSWorld 2.0 | |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | |
| SimpleQA Verified | |
| SWE-Bench verified |
Benchmark compilation: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY attribution). Scores are converted to percentages and model names matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog. Individual evaluations are credited to their original sources. External results may carry separate licences and evaluation configurations; do not interpret scores from different harnesses as directly comparable.
Specifications
- Developer
- Moonshot AI
- Model family
- Kimi
- Type
- Language model
- Predecessor
- —
- Successor
- —
- Released
- April 21, 2026
- Model ID
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- —
- Parameters
- 1T
- Architecture
- kimi-k2
- Families
- kimi-k2
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Modality
- text+image->text
- Native context
- 262K
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Max output tokens
- 236K
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Hugging Face
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
- Source freshness
- Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC
Open-weight builds
Ollama variants
Every published Ollama tag matched to this model, including parameter editions, instruction/base variants, and quantized builds.
| Variant | Parameters | Type | Quantization | Size | Context | Input |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kimi-k2.6:cloud | 1T | cloud | — | — | 256K | text + image |
Additional source evidence
- Source model
- moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
- Source family
- kimi-k2
- Last updated
- 2026-04-21
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Model context
- 262K
- Model output limit
- 262K
- Open weights
- Yes
- File attachments
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Temperature control
- Yes
Downloadable weights
Published benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Evaluation details | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | 80.2 · resolved | — | Source |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index | 50.5 · average pass@1 | Claude Code | Source |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | 59.8 · pass@1 | Claude Code | Source |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 27.3 · pass@1 | Claude Code · hard-aa | Source |
| Terminal-Bench | 64.3 · pass@1 | Claude Code · 2.1 | Source |
Complete source record (JSON)
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"temperature": true,
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],
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},
"benchmarks": [
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"name": "SWE-Bench Verified",
"score": 80.2,
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"metric": "resolved"
},
{
"name": "Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index",
"score": 50.5,
"source": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents",
"metric": "average pass@1",
"harness": "Claude Code"
},
{
"name": "SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA",
"score": 59.8,
"source": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents",
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"name": "SWE-Bench Pro",
"score": 27.3,
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"dataset": "hard-aa"
},
{
"name": "Terminal-Bench",
"score": 64.3,
"source": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents",
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"release_date": "2026-04-21",
"open_weights": true,
"weights": [
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"label": "Hugging Face",
"url": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6"
}
]
}Infrastructure
Provider availability
| Provider | Endpoint | Context | Input /M tokens | Output /M tokens | Cached input /M tokens | Cache write /M tokens | Uptime 1d | Data handling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| baidu/fp4 | 262K | $0.44 | $1.84 | $0.07 | — | 100.00% | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| inceptron/int4 | 262K | $0.44 | $3.20 | $0.13 | — | 99.58% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| chutes/int4 | 262K | $0.45 | $1.95 | $0.05 | — | 99.66% | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| digitalocean | 262K | $0.57 | $2.40 | $0.11 | — | 100.00% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| streamlake/fp8 | 256K | $0.60 | $2.52 | $0.10 | — | 91.67% | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| coreweave/fp4 | 262K | $0.65 | $3.41 | $0.15 | — | 100.00% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| crusoe/bf16 | 262K | $0.70 | $3.50 | $0.35 | — | 99.35% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| deepinfra/fp4 | 262K | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.15 | — | 98.34% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| parasail/int4 | 262K | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.16 | — | 100.00% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| venice/int4 | 256K | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.16 | — | 94.25% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| siliconflow/fp8 | 262K | $0.77 | $3.40 | $0.14 | — | 99.83% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| novita | 262K | $0.80 | $3.40 | $0.16 | — | 98.80% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| gmicloud/fp8 | 262K | $0.86 | $3.60 | $0.14 | — | — | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| atlas-cloud/int4 | 262K | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 | — | 98.36% | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| cloudflare | 262K | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 | — | 99.85% | ZDR: NoTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| moonshotai/int4 | 262K | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 | — | 100.00% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 | |
| phala | 262K | $1.09 | $4.60 | $0.37 | — | 95.91% | ZDR: YesTraining: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown Checked 2026-10-15 |
Provider data:OpenRouter
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