Models / Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
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
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Sources
Moonshot benchmark; The Batch (deeplearning.ai); Artificial Analysis; 36Kr
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