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Kimi K2.6

206 days since Moonshot announced it · 20 Apr 2026

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weights LLM from Moonshot, announced 20 Apr 2026. It costs $0.95 per 1M input tokens and $4 per 1M output tokens. Its context window is 256K tokens. It has 1T parameters.

Input: $0.95; per 1M tokens
Cache write: —; per 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.16; per 1M tokens
Output: $4; per 1M tokens
Context window: 256K; tokens
Parameters: 1T; total

Announcement: kimi.com/en/blog/kimi-k2-6
Docs: platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k2-6-quickstart
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Moonshot open-sources Kimi K2.6 for long-horizon coding
20 Apr 2026

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Moonshot open-sources Kimi K2.6 for long-horizon coding