Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI’s multimodal model for agentic tasks, coding, and tool-assisted workflows, with native input support for text, image, and video. The MoE architecture activates only 32 billion of the total one trillion parameters per token; the context window spans 256,000 tokens. Available as an Open Weights model locally or via cloud API, with Chinese jurisdiction as a material cloud risk factor.

Moonshot AI Version k2.6 Commercial use permitted MoE 1000 B (32 B active) 256 K Context 12/2025 $0.74 / $3.49 per 1M

  • Open Weights
  • Frontier
  • OR
  • Text
  • Vision
  • Video
  • Agentic Orchestrator
  • Long Context
  • Batch

Key metrics

Score · Latency · Cost · Quality

Total Score Silver
75.91
Routine
45.74
Reasoning
30.17

Rank #14

LLM Judge Avg
3.86
100 Coverage
Avg Task Duration
75.08
Batch
Token Rate
25.13
Output Rate
P95 Latency
243.15
Top 5 %
Total Tokens
215000
Output Volume
Cost per 1K
$0.0035
USD / 1K Requests
Benchmark Cost
$0.75
Total · 215000 tok

Benchmark modules

10 modules · weighted · vs. model median & top performer

Kimi K2.6 Best model Ø All models
Code Quality 77.64
CLI Benchmark 89
Logical Reasoning 76.86
UX Writing 74.07
Documentation 75.54
Content Transform. 71.99
Cultural Intelligence 74.92
Synthesis Quality 63.33
Tool Execution 86.67
ToolUse Score 74.5
Benchmark Cost $0.75

Token efficiency & latency

Consumption per module vs. model median

Token consumption per module

Performance profile