Kimi K2.6

moonshotmoonshot/kimi-k2.6

Moonshot AI's 2026-04 flagship — 1T-parameter MoE that ties GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks. Agent swarm scales to 300 sub-agents and 4000 coordinated steps. Open-weight.

Context Length

256K

Max Output

64K

Input Price

$1.14/ 1M tokens

Output Price

$5.40/ 1M tokens

Modalities

textimage→text

Pricing Breakdown

Type	Rate
Input	$1.14 / 1M tokens
Output	$5.40 / 1M tokens

Supported Parameters

temperaturemax_tokenstop_ptoolstool_choiceresponse_formatstop

API Usage Examples

China users: replace api.therouter.ai with api.therouter.com.cn in the examples below for lower latency.

cURL

curl https://api.therouter.ai/v1/chat/completions   -H "Content-Type: application/json"   -H "Authorization: Bearer $THE_ROUTER_API_KEY"   -d '{
    "model": "moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Summarize the key points from this input."}
    ]
  }'