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Kimi K2.6

previous Moonshot · Kimi

Verified 2026-09-03 against the provider's own page. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

Input
$0.95
Cached input
$0.16
Cache write
—
Output
$4.00
Context window
262,144
Max output
—
Weights
open
Caching
explicit

down from $1.20/$0.20/$4.50 (host-sourced) now that first-party pricing is citable again

Licence: Modified MIT (reported)

Watch out

No longer more expensive than K2.7 Code — pick on coding-vs-general fit, not price

What we would use it for

Cheaper general-purpose alternative to K3, now priced the same as K2.7 Code

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-07-30. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

07-30 $4.50→08-06 $4.50→08-14 $4.50→08-20 $4.00→08-27 $4.00→09-03 $4.00
our correction2026-08-20 · in, cached_in, out — Moonshot's per-model pricing pages became citable again, and the first-party rate was lower than the host figure the board had been carrying. Moonshot did not cut the price; we stopped quoting a host for it.
newly stated2026-08-20 · window — 262,144 documented on the restored per-model pricing page.

Where these numbers came from

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-09-03. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 53 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.