Moonshot Kimi K2.6

alibaba/kimi-k2.6

Maker: Alibaba (Qwen), China
Released: 2026-04-21
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-01
Family: kimi-k2
Weights: open
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code, vision.understand, vision.extract
Cheapest offering: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope), about $0.002086 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope)	`kimi-k2.6`	ga	Input: $0.929 Output: $3.858 Cache read: $0.1858 Cache write (5 min): $1.16125 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 262,144 tokens Max output: 16,384 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.video` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/alibaba/kimi-k2.6' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=dashscope' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).