Kimi K2.6

by Moonshot AI · served by NEAR AI

Confidential
near/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Input
$1.13/1M tokens
Output
$5.39/1M tokens
Context
262Ktokens
Max output
8Ktokens
Knows to
-
Released
20 Apr 2026

About

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration.

Pricing

Input$1.13per 1M prompt tokens
Output$5.39per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included

What a request costs

Typical requestEachPer 1,000
Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out$0.0039$3.86
Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out$0.050$49.67
Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out$0.029$29.15

At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.

Benchmarks

Intelligence27.0#97 of 285
Coding61.8#60 of 163
Agentic20.5#64 of 127

Head-to-head rankings

  1. #2SlidesAgent arenaElo 124859% wins
  2. #6Web appsAgent arenaElo 126859% wins
  3. #20Game devAgent arenaElo 114148% wins
  4. #21Android appsAgent arenaElo 117449% wins
  5. #25Full stackAgent arenaElo 115549% wins
  6. #253DModel arenaElo 126858% wins
  7. #26Mobile appsAgent arenaElo 115348% wins
  8. #28Godot gamesAgent arenaElo 112047% wins
  9. #28CodeModel arenaElo 127355% wins
  10. #29WebsitesModel arenaElo 127154% wins

Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.

Call it from code

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.

cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "near/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'
Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="near/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "near/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);

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