Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.

Specs

Model

Family
Kimi
Variant
K2.6
Parameters
1T
Weights
Open
License
Modified MIT

Limits

Context
262,144 tokens
Max output
262,144 tokens

Modalities

Input
Text Image Video
Output
Text

Pricing

Input
$0.95 / 1M
Output
$4 / 1M
Cache read
$0.16 / 1M

Capabilities

Reasoning
Yes
Reasoning control
On / off
Tool calling
Yes
Attachments
Yes

Dates

Released
21 Apr 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
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