Kimi K2.6 launch post cover

Cost/1M tokens

input
$0.65
cached
$0.15
output
$3.41
Context
262Ktokens
Released
6mo ago
Size
1Tparameters

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Arena leaderboards and other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

How it ranks

Against its predecessor, similarly priced models and the models ranked around it.

DeepSWE 1.1

Best pass@1 per model · Higher is better

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1

Arena Text

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #61

  1. 1489
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 1464
  3. 1461
    Claude Sonnet 5Nearby rank
  4. 1461
    Kimi K2.6
  5. 1460
  6. 1458
  7. 1450
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  8. 1448
    Step 5 PreviewSimilar price
  9. 1441
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price
  10. 1290
    Nova Pro 1.0Similar price

+11 vs Kimi K2.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena WebDev

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #66

  1. 1588
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 1581
  3. 1573
    Step 5 PreviewSimilar price
  4. 1515
    Qwen3.7 MaxNearby rank
  5. 1512
    GPT-5.5Nearby rank
  6. 1509
    Kimi K2.6
  7. 1508
    GLM 5.1Nearby rank
  8. 1506
    Hy3Nearby rank
  9. 1436
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  10. 1400
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price

+73 vs Kimi K2.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Vision

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #40

  1. 1294
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 1266
  3. 1265
    Gemma 4 31BNearby rank
  4. 1265
    Kimi K2.6
  5. 1263
    Grok 4.6Nearby rank
  6. 1263
  7. 1252
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  8. 1246
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price
  9. 1245
    Step 5 PreviewSimilar price
  10. 1019
    Nova Pro 1.0Similar price

+13 vs Kimi K2.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Search

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena Search yet

Arena Document

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #33

  1. 1480
    Muse Spark 1.1Similar price
  2. 1468
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  3. 1452
    Gemma 4 31BNearby rank
  4. 1451
  5. 1450
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 1450
    Grok 4.6Nearby rank
  7. 1448
  8. 1438
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  9. 1419
    Claude Haiku 4.5Similar price
  10. 1406
    GLM 5V TurboSimilar price

Level with Kimi K2.5 (predecessor, overlapping 95% CIs) · Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

Agent Arena

Best IPS score per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Agent Arena yet

FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#7 of 58

  1. 40.7%
    GPT-5.2Nearby rank
  2. 39.0%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashNearby rank
  3. 39.0%
    Kimi K2.6
  4. 37.6%
  5. 36.9%
  6. 35.6%
  7. 28.3%
    GPT-5.4 MiniSimilar price
  8. 16.4%
    GLM 5Similar price
  9. 8.5%

Ahead of 4 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#10 of 46

  1. 14.6%
    GPT-5 ProNearby rank
  2. 14.6%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashNearby rank
  3. 14.6%
    Kimi K2.6
  4. 12.5%
    GPT-5Nearby rank
  5. 12.5%
    GPT-5.1Nearby rank
  6. 4.2%
  7. 2.1%
    GLM 5Similar price
  8. 2.1%
    GPT-5.4 MiniSimilar price
  9. 0.0%

Ahead of 4 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#44 of 72

  1. 36.6%
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 26.8%
  3. 26.8%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashNearby rank
  4. 26.8%
    Mistral Large 4Nearby rank
  5. 25.6%
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 24.4%
  7. 24.4%
    Grok 4.5Nearby rank
  8. 14.6%
    Grok 4.3Similar price
  9. 9.8%
    GPT-5.4 MiniSimilar price

Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#46 of 87

  1. 71.6%
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 64.6%
  3. 58.6%
    Mistral Large 4Nearby rank
  4. 57.5%
  5. 57.2%
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 57.2%
    Grok 4.5Nearby rank
  7. 55.8%
    GPT-5 ProNearby rank
  8. 42.8%
    Grok 4.3Similar price
  9. 31.2%
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price

Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

GPQA diamond

Best score per model · Higher is better

#37 of 161

  1. 94.8%
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 91.7%
  3. 90.9%
    Qwen3.7 MaxNearby rank
  4. 90.9%
    GLM 5.3Nearby rank
  5. 90.8%
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 90.7%
    GPT-5.5Nearby rank
  7. 90.6%
    Claude Opus 5.5Nearby rank
  8. 87.8%
    GLM 5Similar price
  9. 86.4%
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price

Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

OSWorld 2.0

Best score per model · Higher is better

#7 of 9

  1. 9.3%
  2. 4.6%
    MiniMax M3Nearby rank
  3. 4.6%
    Kimi K2.6
  4. 2.8%
    Qwen3.7 PlusNearby rank

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Best score per model · Higher is better

#35 of 158

  1. 98.6%
  2. 97.2%
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  3. 97.2%
    Kimi K3Nearby rank
  4. 96.7%
  5. 96.1%
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 96.1%
    GPT-5.2Nearby rank
  7. 95.6%
  8. 88.9%
    Qwen3.5 397B A17BSimilar price
  9. 80.0%
    GLM 5Similar price

Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

SimpleQA Verified

Best score per model · Higher is better

#57 of 87

  1. 69.2%
    Gemini 3.7 FlashSimilar price
  2. 52.9%
  3. 40.4%
  4. 36.5%
    Kimi K2.7 CodeNearby rank
  5. 35.5%
  6. 34.9%
    Kimi K2.6
  7. 34.3%
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  8. 34.2%
    GLM 5.2Nearby rank
  9. 33.2%
    Grok 4.3Similar price

+0.6 pts vs Kimi K2.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

SWE-bench Verified

Best score per model · Higher is better

#7 of 35

  1. 77.6%
  2. 77.3%
    Qwen3.7 MaxSimilar price
  3. 76.7%
  4. 76.7%
    Claude Opus 4.5Nearby rank
  5. 76.7%
    Kimi K2.6
  6. 75.6%
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  7. 75.6%
  8. 75.4%
  9. 73.8%
    Kimi K2.5Predecessor
  10. 72.1%
    GLM 5Similar price

+2.9 pts vs Kimi K2.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

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.

All published scores

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.

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

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