🇨🇳 China💻 CodeReleased April 2026
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
Open-sourceFreeSelf-host
Verdict
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's flagship open-weight model: 1 trillion total parameters, 32B active per token (MoE, 384 experts), 256K context. Built for long-horizon agentic coding, orchestration of hundreds of sub-agents and full-stack generation. Multimodal (text, image, video), Modified MIT license, and very low pricing versus closed models. Stronger on agentic tasks than on pure reasoning.
Skill profile
Arena Elo1461
Verified benchmarks
GPQA90.5%
What do these scores mean?
GPQA90.5%world-class
PhD-level science questions (physics, chemistry, biology), with no tool access.
Strengths
- World-class on Arena
- Has a free tier
- Open-source and self-hostable
- Competitive input pricing
Limitations
- Average speed
- No native GDPR guarantee
- Light safety filters
Who is it for
A good fit if…
- you build with a coding agent
- you want to control cost or self-host
Skip it if…
- you handle sensitive EU data
- you need very fast responses
- you want strict guardrails
Ideal use cases
- Long-horizon agentic coding and multi-agent orchestration
- Full-stack generation (UI + backend)
- Chinese and multilingual workloads
Access & availability
Paid API per tokenFree tier availableSelf-hostable (open weights)
Key specifications
Context
262K
Input price
$0.95 $/M
Output price
$4.00 $/M
Speed
—
Price verified Jul 2, 2026·Official source ↗Benchmarks not audited
Estimate your monthly cost
Per-token API pricing$57/ month with Kimi K2.6
For the same usage
- DeepSeek Coder V3$6.19-89%
- Codestral$15-73%
Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.
Privacy
Not GDPR-compliant
Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
Advanced data · for experts
Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
MoE (384 experts, 32B actifs)
Size
1T total / 32B actifs (MoE)
Cutoff date
—
Inputs
text, image, video
Outputs
text
License
mit
Hosting
—
Hallucination score
—
Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0069
1M in + 1M out
≈ $4.95
All benchmarks
| Arena Elo | 1461 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | 90.5% |
| HumanEval | — |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |