MoonshotAI: 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.

Context
262K
Max output
262K
Input price
$0.74/1M tokens
Output price
$3.5/1M tokens

Capabilities

vision
tool call
structured output
reasoning
json mode
streaming
fine tuning
batch

Details

Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Provider OpenRouter
Creator moonshotai
Familykimi-k2.6
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Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
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Typechat
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Sourceofficial
Last updated

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input
$0.74
Output
$3.5
Cache write
—
Cache read
$0.25
Batch in
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Batch out
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API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

moonshotai/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.

Changes · 6 entries
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6updated9ddd19May 14, 2026, 07:26 AM
context_window262144→262142
max_output_tokens16384→262142
pricinginput$0.75→$0.74cached input$0.15→$0.25
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6update241c61aMay 7, 2026, 04:28 AM
context_window262142→262144
max_output_tokens262142→16384
pricinginput$0.74→$0.75output$3.49→$3.5cached input$0.14→$0.15
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6updatebc0fb7dMay 2, 2026, 02:14 AM
context_window256000→262142
max_output_tokens65536→262142
pricinginput$0.745→$0.74output$4.655→$3.49cached input$0.146→$0.14
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6update6a1e7e3Apr 24, 2026, 02:41 AM
context_window262144→256000
max_output_tokens262144→65536
pricinginput$0.8→$0.745output$3.5→$4.655cached input$0.2→$0.146
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6update80802beApr 22, 2026, 02:56 PM
pricinginput$0.6→$0.8output$2.8→$3.5
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6create6231fb5Apr 22, 2026, 02:50 AM