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Kimi K2.6: price, performance and context
Open Kimi K2.6 by Moonshot AI costs $0.434 per 1M input and $2.45 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 27 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 56 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 11 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.434
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.45
- Context window
- 262.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 235.9K tokens
- Performance index
- 27 points · rank 56 of 212
- Coding index
- 61.8 points · rank 34 of 119
- Agentic index
- 20.5 points · rank 42 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $1.047 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Apr 20, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling
Placements by task
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 7,400 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 9,200 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.003 | 3,800 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.005 | 2,100 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.048 | 210 |
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