Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6Moonshot AIOpen weightsReasoningProvisionalReleased Apr 20, 2026Input: text, image
Overall score
58.4
Rank 60 of 222 · 48.7–68.1
Context window
256K
256,000 tokens
Price per 1M tokens
$0.95 in · $4.00 out
Source: BenchLM
Blended price
$1.71
3:1 input:output tokens
Output speed
—
Not measured yet
Category scores
Scores per capability area with the model's rank among ranked models in that category.
- 1Math#476.8
- 2Multimodal#2773.8
- 3Agentic & tool use#6165.9
- 4Knowledge#4962.6
- 5Coding#5962.4
Benchmark results (30)
As reported in system cards, papers and public evaluations. Position compares this model with every other model reporting the same benchmark.
Agentic & tool use
| Gert Labs | 56.82 | #15 of 52 |
| BrowseComp | 83.2 | #21 of 50 |
| MCP Atlas | 55.9 | #33 of 42 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 66.7 | #10 of 39 |
| Claw-Eval | 62.3 | #19 of 36 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 73.1 | #19 of 35 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6 | #22 of 24 |
| Toolathlon | 50.0 | #10 of 22 |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.5 | #6 of 20 |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0 | #8 of 19 |
| WideResearch | 80.8 | #5 of 16 |
Multimodal
| Design Arena Website | 1269 | #29 of 91 |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.4 | #13 of 48 |
| CharXiv | 80.4 | #27 of 42 |
| MathVision | 87.4 | #11 of 20 |
| V* | 96.9 | #1 of 12 |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 80.1 | #6 of 9 |
Math
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 57.193 | #36 of 64 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 25.641 | #34 of 51 |
| AIME26 | 96.4 | #5 of 29 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 92.7 | #6 of 24 |
| MMAnswerBench | 86.0 | #2 of 10 |
Coding
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2 | #17 of 98 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 58.6 | #31 of 69 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 89.6 | #8 of 46 |
| SciCode | 52.2 | #4 of 23 |
Knowledge
| GPQA | 90.5 | #22 of 117 |
| HLE | 34.7 | #38 of 69 |
Multilingual
| SWE Multilingual | 76.7 | #21 of 46 |
Pricing by source
USD per 1M tokens.
| Source | Input | Output | Cached in |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price (BenchLM) | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 |
| OpenRouter moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | $0.65 | $3.41 | $0.15 |
Moonshot's Kimi API chat pricing page, read September 25, 2026, lists kimi-k2.6 at $0.95 cache-miss input / $0.16 cache-hit input / $4.00 output per million tokens.
Arena ratings
Human-preference ratings from LMArena. Best-rated variant shown.
| Text | 1455 | #44 · 40K votes |
| WebDev (coding) | 1510 | #59 · 10.2K votes |
| Vision | 1282 | #34 · 16.4K votes |
| Documents | 1451 | #27 · 11.3K votes |
Open weights
From the Hugging Face repository.
- Parameters
- 1.03T
- Licence
- other
- Downloads (30 days)
- 366.9K
- Repository
- moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 ↗
Speed
Measured by us through OpenRouter (median of trials).
Not measured yet.
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