Kimi K2.6 is a Moonshot AI model with 262K context, $0.95 in / $4 out per million tokens, last verified October 1, 2026. Open weights: yes. Public-board scores are linked to the publisher; vendor-only figures stay in the watch-out, not on the board.
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.
Recorded profile verification October 1, 2026·Individual provider fields may change
Pricing tiers: $0.95/$4.00 per MTok on the Moonshot API; cached input $0.16. No documented hard output cap; evals ran 98,304-token generations.
Best for
Open-weight volume work
Multimodal input on a budget
Self-hosting at mid size
Watch out
The Modified MIT licence requires prominent Kimi K2.6 UI attribution for commercial products above 100M monthly active users or $20M monthly revenue. Video input is experimental on the official API. No hard output cap or complete hosted reasoning-effort menu is verified; a 98,304-token evaluation setting is not a product limit.
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Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.
How much does Kimi K2.6 cost per million tokens?
Kimi K2.6 lists base rates of $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. Estimate both input and output token volume and any additional charges for your workload. $0.95/$4.00 per MTok on the Moonshot API; cached input $0.16. No documented hard output cap; evals ran 98,304-token generations.
What is Kimi K2.6's context window?
Kimi K2.6 accepts about 262K tokens of context. That only matters if you routinely send very long documents, large codebases, or multi-turn histories that approach that limit.
What is Kimi K2.6 best for?
Kimi K2.6 is a balanced tier from Moonshot AI. It suits open-weight volume work, multimodal input on a budget, self-hosting at mid size. The Modified MIT licence requires prominent Kimi K2.6 UI attribution for commercial products above 100M monthly active users or $20M monthly revenue. Video input is experimental on the official API. No hard output cap or complete hosted reasoning-effort menu is verified; a 98,304-token evaluation setting is not a product limit.
Can I self-host Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 publishes open weights, but self-hosting depends on the licence, hardware footprint, quantisation quality, and serving stack. A hosted API is often cheaper until you have measured throughput and concurrency on your own hardware.
