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Base 1 vs Kimi K2.6

Base44 against Moonshot AI, compared on context, price, and attributed benchmark results.

Base 1: profile checked October 25, 2026Kimi K2.6: profile checked October 25, 2026Individual provider fields may changeEvidence confidence: Insufficient data — see receipts below

Base44

Base 1

Balanced

vs

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.6

Balanced · Open weights

AI model capability comparison
SpecificationBase 1Kimi K2.6
ProviderBase44Moonshot AI
TierBalancedBalanced
Context windowNot verifiedUnverified262K
Max outputNot verifiedUnverifiedNot verifiedUnverified
Input / 1M tokensNot verifiedUnverified$0.95
Output / 1M tokensNot verifiedUnverified$4
WeightsNot verifiedUnverifiedOpen
ParametersNot verifiedUnverified1T total / 32B active (MoE, 384 experts)
Reasoning levelsNot verifiedUnverifiedNot verifiedUnverified
Modalitiestexttext, image, video
LicenseNot verifiedUnverifiedModified MIT
API model idNot verifiedUnverifiedkimi-k2.6
ReleasedJune 29, 2026April 20, 2026

Dates beside benchmark scores refer to the linked source’s publication or capture date unless that source explicitly states when it measured the result. A shared URL alone does not establish comparable runs; unverified setups are marked. Prices are USD per million tokens at standard rates, excluding batch and caching discounts. Values we could not confirm from the provider are shown as “Not verified” rather than estimated.

Pricing tiers

Base 1: Uses Base44 message credits. Model-specific cost is shown under Credits Used per message; no direct token-rate API price is verified.

Kimi K2.6: Kimi API USD/MTok input/output $0.95/$4, cached input $0.16; taxes excluded. Context 262,144. No hard output cap is established by the guide; 98,304-token evaluations and 32K examples are not limits. Kimi Platform API announces no K2 access for newly registered users starting October 31, 2026; existing users are unaffected then. Retirement is planned by end-December, without an exact confirmed shutdown day. This notice does not establish Kimi Code membership routing.

BalancedRecord checked October 25, 2026

Base 1

Base44's first in-house model is offered in its app-building chat, with the publisher describing it as trained on platform building patterns.

Best for

  • Evaluating app-building prompts within Base44
  • Comparing builder output in an eligible Base44 account

Watch out

The current founder article explicitly says Published June 29, 2026 and 'Today, we announced' Base 1; this establishes the announcement date, not a universal account rollout date. No direct inference endpoint, stable API ID, downloadable checkpoint/licence, exact context/output, parameter count or comparable numeric benchmark is verified. The current manual-selection guide requires Builder or higher and explicitly excludes Base 1 from the effort selector. Per-message Credits Used is authoritative; in-app agent integration-credit prices are a different billing surface. The historical product changelog was not successfully re-fetched, so no broader all-plan availability is asserted.

BalancedOpen weightsRecord checked October 25, 2026

Kimi K2.6

Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K2.6 multimodal MoE: 1T total/32B active parameters and a 262,144-token context, with separate official-API video support.

Best for

  • Open-weight multimodal work
  • Hosted agent workflows
  • Evaluating exact K2.6 weights

Watch out

Platform API supports thinking/non-thinking; temperature is fixed at 1.0 for thinking or 0.6 otherwise, top_p=0.95 and n=1. A complete named effort menu remains unverified. Modified MIT requires Kimi K2.6 UI attribution for commercial products above 100M monthly active users or US$20M monthly revenue. Video input and serving behavior belong to the named API route; self-hosted memory/throughput is not inferred.

When the cheaper one wins

One of these rows is missing a verified output price, so this page will not name a cheaper winner. Run the model picker against the actual job instead of guessing.

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Evidence confidence: Insufficient data

How strong and complete the evidence behind this comparison is — not a prediction of which model is better. Hard limitations apply: missing pricing; evidence too sparse.

  • Pricing incomplete — No verified token pricing for Base 1.
  • 1/5 core specs verified on both sides — Not published for at least one side: context window, max output, parameter count, reasoning levels.
  • No directly aligned benchmark setup — No benchmark has matching cited sources, source dates, units, effort and recorded run details on both models.
  • Verified within the last 90 days — Older of the two catalog checks was 1 day ago.
  • Both models carry source citations — Each side has at least two catalog sources on record.

Source receipts

Each catalog figure was checked against the provider or an independent second source on the date shown.

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Common questions

Base 1 vs Kimi K2.6

Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.

Should I use Base 1 or Kimi K2.6?
Both are classified in our balanced tier; this editorial grouping does not imply equal capability. Base 1 is a candidate for evaluating app-building prompts within base44; Kimi K2.6 is a candidate for open-weight multimodal work. Compare accuracy, tool reliability, latency and cost on representative tasks.

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Choosing between them

The verified figures that separate this pair, computed from the catalog rather than restated boilerplate.

These two models match on every verified catalog figure — the decision comes down to provider preference, availability, and workload fit rather than published numbers.

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