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Kimi K2.6

Specs as of

Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6, released 20 Apr 2026: a 1T MoE under a modified MIT license, published per-token pricing, and its lab and independent scores.

Specifications

Lab
Moonshot AI
Released
20 Apr 2026
Parameters
1T (MoE)
Context window
n/d
License
Modified MIT
Pricing
$0.95 in / $0.16 cached / $4.00 out per million tokens; API prices raised 58% on release

The benchmark claim

Moonshot claims 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating every closed-source model, and 54.0% on Humanity’s Last Exam with tools; independently placed at 54 on the Artificial Analysis index, tied with DeepSeek V4 and Qwenlab-reported

A figure tagged lab-reported is the lab's own claim. A figure taggedindependent comes from a third-party leaderboard. We never present a vendor's number as neutral fact.

Sources

Moonshot benchmark; The Batch (deeplearning.ai); Artificial Analysis; 36Kr

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Every figure above traces to the named source on this page, and where it comes from our reporting, to the dated issue that carried it. Specs the lab did not disclose read "n/d" rather than carrying an estimate.

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