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description: "MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6: $0.541/M in, $2.28/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6: $0.541/M in, $2.28/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-20

 $0.976 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## MiniMax M3 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+0.3** higher and costs **46% less** ($0.525/M against $0.976/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) is cheaper still (89% less) but drops no image input.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.541 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.28 /M |
| Cached input | $0.091 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 45.1 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 61.8 |
| Agentic | 31.2 |
| LMArena Elo | 1455 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

#### Best rankings by task

 - agentichtmlslides #2 of 16 1248
- agenticslides(html) #2 of 16 1252
- agenticslides #5 of 16 1187
- agenticslides(python-pptx) #5 of 16 1186
- pptxslides #5 of 14 1181
- webapps #8 of 56 1268
- htmlslides #9 of 34 1201
- 3d #13 of 136 1315

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

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. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...