Kimi K2.6 API Pricing

Short answer

Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens (cached input $0.16/1M). Context window: 262K. Last verified 2026-06-17 from platform.kimi.ai. Confidence: Verified.

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot's open-weight flagship multimodal MoE, far cheaper than Western frontier models.

Input
$0.95 /1M
Output
$4.00 /1M
Cached input
$0.16 /1M
Input pricing$0.95
Cached input$0.16
Output pricing$4.00

Limits & capabilities

Context window262K
Max output~32K
Modalitytext + vision input, text output
ChannelOfficial API
ProviderMoonshot

Best for

Open weightReasoningMultimodal
Open-weight (trillion-param MoE). Official automatic context caching ~$0.16/1M. Prices are USD-native on Moonshot's platform; older K2 0711/0905 variants were EOL'd 2026-05-25.
Last checked Verified

More from Moonshot

Related comparisons