MODEL PROOF
Kimi K2.6
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 15.6 points · 71% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens (Price under confirmation since Oct 12, 2026)
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a further stored option with these losses: 236K → 131K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,455.4 ± 4.41 · 40,030 votes
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 235.93K
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.450 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.95 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Chutes: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Cheaper right now: $0.810/M at Baidu — promotion 53% It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.450/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.95/M |
| Cached input | $0.045/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.700/M from Crusoe.
17 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baidubaidu/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.449 | $1.89 | fp4 | 99.76% |
| Chuteschutes/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $1.95 | int4 | 100.00% |
| Inceptroninceptron/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.495 | $3.20 | int4 | 98.93% |
| DigitalOceandigitalocean Endpoint terms
| $0.570 | $2.40 | undeclared | 99.32% |
| StreamLakestreamlake/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.599 | $2.52 | fp8 | 96.96% |
| CoreWeavecoreweave/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.650 | $3.41 | fp4 | 99.03% |
| Crusoecrusoe/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.700 | $3.50 | bf16 | 99.65% |
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.750 | $3.50 | fp4 | 99.86% |
| Venicevenice/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.750 | $3.50 | int4 | 99.25% |
| Parasailparasail/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.750 | $3.50 | int4 | 98.01% |
| SiliconFlowsiliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.770 | $3.40 | fp8 | 100.00% |
| Novitanovita Endpoint terms
| $0.800 | $3.40 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| GMICloudgmicloud/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.855 | $3.60 | fp8 | — |
| AtlasCloudatlas-cloud/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.950 | $4.00 | int4 | 100.00% |
| Moonshot AImoonshotai/int4 Endpoint terms
| $0.950 | $4.00 | int4 | 100.00% |
| Cloudflarecloudflare Endpoint terms
| $0.950 | $4.00 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Phalaphala Endpoint terms
| $1.09 | $4.60 | undeclared | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1455.4default |
|---|---|
| LMArena row | kimi-k2.6 |
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Agentichtmlslides #2 1248
- Agenticslides(html) #2 1252
- Spreadsheet #4 1276
- Agenticslides #4 1187
- Agenticslides(python pptx) #4 1186
- Pptxslides #4 1181
- Web apps #8 1268
- Htmlslides #10 1184
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 235K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-21 |
| 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...
Questions this page answers
What does Kimi K2.6 cost?
$0.450/M in, $1.95/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Kimi K2.6 have an independent quality score?
Kimi K2.6 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Kimi K2.6?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Kimi K2.6?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest Kimi K2.6 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.700/M from Crusoe.
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