Models · Moonshot (Kimi)
Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's flagship multimodal model, combining strong language understanding with native image and video processing. It handles diverse inputs for comprehensive AI applications at a competitive price.
Input $0.95 per 1M tokens
Output $4.00 per 1M tokens
Context 262K tokens · $4.95 combined per 1M
Benchmark performance
Source: Artificial Analysis. Updated 2026-09-20.
Key strengths
- — True multimodal (text, image, video)
- — Strong long-context capabilities
- — Excellent instruction following
- — Good all-around performance
Best use cases
- Multimodal content analysis
- Document and image understanding
- Video content processing and summarization
- General-purpose AI applications
Pricing details
| Input (per 1M tokens) | $0.95 |
| Output (per 1M tokens) | $4.00 |
| Context window | 262K tokens |
| Architecture | Native multimodal transformer, 262K context, unified text-image-video understanding |
| Provider | Moonshot (Kimi) |
Flagship multi-modal, text+image+video
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Pricing data is sourced from official API documentation and updated weekly. Actual costs may vary based on prompt caching, batch processing, service tiers, and regional pricing. Inblix is not affiliated with Moonshot (Kimi).