Kimi K2.6: API pricing, providers and specs
Kimi K2.6 is a text model by Moonshot AI. 38 providers serve it, from $2.40 to $4.40 /1M; the lowest price is at APIYI.
A newer version is out: Kimi K3 · released Jun 13, 2026
How Kimi K2.6 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $2.40 /1M against a median of $1.10; 66% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #46 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 38 providers serve it; 99% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the modified-mit license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Kimi K2.6 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nvidia | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $0.60/1M | $2.40/1M | — | — |
 Kenari | $0.552/1M | $2.76/1M | $0.276/1M | — |
 Cortecs | $0.477/1M | $2.98/1M | $0.101/1M | — |
| APIMart | $0.743/1M | $3.08/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $0.76/1M | $3.20/1M | $0.114/1M | — |
 Novita AI | $0.80/1M | $3.40/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.80/1M | From$3.40/1M | — | — |
 SiliconFlow | $0.77/1M | $3.40/1M | $0.14/1M | — |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.80/1M | From$3.40/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.80/1M | $3.40/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.65/1M | From$3.41/1M | $0.15/1M | 262K |
 Requesty | $0.80/1M | From$3.50/1M | $0.20/1M | 262K |
 Venice AI | $0.75/1M | $3.50/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
 FastRouter | $0.75/1M | $3.50/1M | $0.15/1M | 262K |
 Deep Infra | $0.75/1M | From$3.50/1M | $0.15/1M | — |
 Alibaba | $0.894/1M | $3.71/1M | — | — |
 EmpirioLabs AI | $0.894/1M | $3.71/1M | $0.179/1M | 256K |
| Moonshot AIOfficial | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | $0.153/1M | — |
| SiliconFlow | $0.903/1M | $3.75/1M | — | — |
 NEAR AI Cloud | $0.81/1M | $3.85/1M | $0.41/1M | 262K |
 AIHubMix | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.161/1M | 262K |
 OrcaRouter | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | 262K |
| Moonshot AIOfficial | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
| ZenMux | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | 262K |
 Ofox | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | 262K |
 Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
| OpenCode | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | 262K |
 LaoZhang API | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $1/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
| Atlas Cloud | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
 Prime Inference | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
| Replicate | $0.95/1M | $4/1M | — | — |
 Poe | $0.96/1M | $4.04/1M | $0.162/1M | 262K |
 CrossModel | $1/1M | $4.16/1M | $0.18/1M | — |
 Azure | $1.04/1M | From$4.40/1M | $0.16/1M | — |
- APIYI$2.40
- Kenari$2.76
- Cortecs$2.98
- APIMart$3.08
- CometAPI$3.20
- Novita AI$3.40
- SiliconFlow$3.40
- Jiekou.AI$3.40
- Hugging FaceFrom$3.40
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$3.40
- OpenRouterFrom$3.41
- Venice AI$3.50
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Moonshot AI
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 262K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Apr 14, 2026
- License
- modified-mitcommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 1.03T
- Arena score
- 1509WebDev
- Monthly searches
- 11K
Alternatives to Kimi K2.6
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2.6this model | $2.40/1M | 262K | 1509 | 38 |
 GLM-5.3 | $1.10/1M | 1.05M | 1623 | 49 |
 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $4.11/1M | 1M | — | 22 |
| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
 Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
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Kimi K2.6 FAQ
Moonshot AI charges $3.75 /1M for Kimi K2.6. The lowest price across providers is $2.40 /1M, at APIYI.
APIYI, at $2.40 /1M. 38 providers serve Kimi K2.6; the table above lists every one with its price.
Kimi K2.6 reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 262K.
Yes. Kimi K2.6's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the modified-mit license.
About 1.03T, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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