MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6, Other — route, pricing & source

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...

OpenRoutermediumLast checked: Jun 2, 2026
Input
$0.6840 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$3.42 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available

Context and limits

Context window
262.1K
Max output
262,144
Input modalities
text, image
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Open weights
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
VisionToolsJSONReasoningLong context

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Benchmarks

Access and license

Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Open weightsModified MITWeights are published under vendor-specific terms (Llama/Qwen‑style licenses). Usually you may download/run locally under those terms; it may differ from MIT/Apache wording.

Example costs

Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request

10,000 requests
$17.10
100,000 requests
$171.00
1,000,000 requests
$1,710.00

Cheaper alternatives

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inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash
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$1.90
Mistral: Mistral Nemo
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$2.90
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
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$3.50
IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro
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$5.06
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct
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$5.20

Source

Source
OpenRouter Models API
Confidence
medium
Route
OpenRouter
Last checked
Jun 2, 2026
Source notes
  • Includes Hugging Face benchmark data only when the dataset is public, ungated, allowlisted, and matched by reviewed aliases.
Open source
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