🔥Kimi K2.6

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Pricing data updated:  Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output
Model Specs
ProviderMoonshotAI
Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens		$0.74
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$3.5
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$2.49
Context Window262.14K
Release Date2026-04-20
Popularity Rank#5
Daily Demand215B tokens

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Unit prices $0.74 input / $3.5 output Per 1M tokens

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Model Introduction

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...

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