FrankX.AI
Moonshot AIGA

Kimi K2.6

The open-weight model that ties GPT-5.5-class coding at one-eighth the price.

Read the full Kimi K2.6 analysis

Context

262K

Max output

262K

Input /1M

$0.95

Output /1M

$4.00

Live pricing via OpenRouter

Best for

  • Long-horizon agentic coding and Agent Swarm workloads
  • Self-hosting near-frontier coding quality under a permissive license
  • Cost-sensitive, high-volume agentic pipelines

Watch out

Most coding/reasoning benchmarks are Moonshot’s own evals (vendor-claimed); it trails Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the neutral intelligence index and on SWE-Bench Verified. Running a 1T MoE well is a real infra project.

For creators. Cheap, self-hostable engine for code generation, UI/UX scaffolding, and multi-agent research swarms where you want frontier-ish quality without frontier pricing or data leaving your environment.

Benchmarks

aa intelligence index54
swe bench verified80.2
swe bench pro58.6
terminal bench 2 066.7
livecodebench89.6
humanitys last exam tools54
gpqa diamond90.5
aime 202696.4

Capabilities

  • Open-weight self-hostable 1T MoE (Modified MIT license)
  • Long-horizon agentic coding (12+ hr autonomous)
  • Agent Swarm up to 300 sub-agents / ~4000 steps
  • Parallel web research (BrowseComp)
  • Coding-driven UI/UX generation
  • Intelligence-per-dollar leader among open weights

Compare Kimi K2.6

Claude Fable 5 vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is the best open-weights model on the neutral index and matches GPT-5.5 on SWE-Bench Pro — at $0.60/$2.50. Fable 5 still clears it by a full tier on agentic coding. Ceiling vs best-value-open: route accordingly.

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4

Kimi K2.6 edges the open-weights intelligence lead; DeepSeek V4 counters with MIT licensing, strong coding, and a deeper ecosystem. Both are self-hostable giants.

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