Kimi K2.6 API pricing per million tokens
Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output, with a 262K context window.
AIGROW credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon. See API credit
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Number 62 of 256 on the Epoch Capabilities Index by Epoch AI, data of 12 November 2026. CC BY 4.0 Newer model: Kimi K3.1 Pro
- 1,000 support replies
- $4.45
- Cached input
- $0.16
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Released
- Apr 2026
- Weights
- Open weights
From Moonshot AI’s own pages, 12 November 2026.
Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens on Moonshot AI’s own API, and $0.16 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $4.45, the 21st cheapest of 49 priced models on our list.
AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Fable 5.1 $4.00 / $20.00, GPT-6 Astra $2.50 / $12.50, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00, GPT-6.1 Sol $0.50 / $2.50, GPT-6.1 Terra $0.25 / $1.25, Grok 4.7 $0.50 / $1.50 and Gemini 4 Argon $1.00 / $5.00. That is up to 75% below list price. See API credit
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Kimi K2.6 among the 49 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 49 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $4.45 | 21st cheapest |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $27.75 | 21st cheapest |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $32.70 | 22nd cheapest |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Moonshot AI’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
Kimi K2.6 on real small-business tasks
What the AIGROW benchmark measured when Kimi K2.6 was given 20 office tasks, each marked pass or fail by fixed checks.
- Success rate
- 75% of 20 runs passed (95% interval 53 to 89%), 23rd of 36 models.
- Cost per 1,000 passes
- $11.69, failed runs included.
- Answer time
- 28 s median, 73 s at the 90th percentile.
- Strongest and weakest
- Bookkeeping (100% passed) and review replies (0%).
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
Closed to new users since 2026-10-31; Moonshot retires the K2 models by the end of December 2026. Input price is the cache-miss rate; cache hit $0.16. Open weights on Hugging Face (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6). Changelog gives the month only.
Kimi K2.6 against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs GPT-5.6 Terra
- Kimi's cheaper previous flagship against OpenAI's GPT-5.6 mid tier at under half the price.
Other Moonshot AI models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI · open weights | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | $10.00 |
| Kimi K3Moonshot AI · open weightsNewer model: Kimi K3.1 Pro | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.05M | $15.00 |
Where the price comes from
- Moonshot AI
- platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare Kimi K2.6 with 53 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date