Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

by MoonshotAI

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

60%

3 benchmarks

Avg Latency

33.2s

18 requests

Pricing

$0.73 in / $3.49 out

per 1M tokens

Context

262K

tokens

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Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Rank
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test	66%	9 / 107
Categorization Bench	53%	24 / 54
Explain Like I'm 5	12%	45 / 47

Price vs Performance

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Score Over Time

Performance trends across all benchmark runs

Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Quickstart

View on OpenRouter

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Get your API key at openrouter.ai/keys

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Kimi K2 Thinking	47.3s	$1.55	31%
Kimi K2 0905	34.5s	$1.55	—
Kimi K2 0711	15.0s	$1.44	—
Kimi Dev 72B	173.1s	$0.72	—
Kimi K2.5	9.6s	$1.15	—