Kimi K2.6 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Kimi K2.6
Author: Moonshot AI

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 7 · released Apr 20, 2026

Provider: Moonshot AI
Release date: Apr 20, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 1.03T total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image to Text; OpenRouter
License: Modified MIT; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.95 in / $4 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 16 priced API routes · Azure OpenAI (31 regions) · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 4083 GB of weights as published (I32), about 1027 GB at 8-bit, about 513 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 7 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of
29	Document ArenaVision · as “Kimi K2.6”	Vision	1,451	40
33	Vision ArenaVision · as “Kimi K2.6”	Vision	1,264	85
37	GPQA DiamondReasoning · as “kimi-k2.6”	Reasoning	90.8%	100
52	Text ArenaChat · as “Kimi K2.6”	Chat	1,461	84
52	LiveBenchReasoning · as “kimi-k2.6-thinking”	Reasoning	70.5%	64
55	WebDev ArenaCoding · as “Kimi K2.6”	Coding	1,509	82
56	Epoch ECIReasoning · as “Kimi K2.6”	Reasoning	151.6	100

Versions and release history

4 versions in this line since Nov 6, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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