Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Kimi K2.6 is a Moonshot AI model released on 20 Apr 2026. Its API price is $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262.1K tokens. It ranks #60 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1461, read 2 Nov 2026). Source: platform.kimi.ai.
The Kimi generation preceding Kimi K3, still served under the same Modified MIT licence.
Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 29, 2026LMArena: 1461 Elo (rank 60) · source · retrieved Nov 2, 2026
Key Features
Open Weights Coding Tool Use Self-Hostable
Full Specifications
$0.95 / $4 per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Identity | |
| Developer | Moonshot AI |
| Released | Apr 2026 |
| Licence | Open weights (Modified MIT) |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $1.712 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.950 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $4.000 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 262.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1461 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 60 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 77 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 853 |