Model Release Radar
Price/capability frontier position, benchmark scores, and community signal
Model Release Radar
Kimi K2.6
moonshot·open weights·Modified MIT·released Monday, Apr 20, 2026
USD per million tokens via OpenRouter, Moonshot AI (moonshotai/int4). Checked 2026-10-17 04:40 UTC.
| Token type | USD /1M |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.95 |
| Output | $4 |
| Cache read | $0.16 |
| Cache write (default) | Unknown |
| Cache write (1 hour) | Unknown |
Cache-write rates with a verified basis replace the ordinary input charge. Unknown rates are never treated as zero.
- Behind frontier AA coding index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Qwen3.8 27B, GPT-5.6 Luna are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
- Behind frontier AA intelligence index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - GLM-5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Step 5 Preview are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
This model has not been measured on DeepSWE (or any other benchmark with a real measured per-task cost) yet, so no cost/capability chart is drawn. Its Artificial Analysis benchmark scores are listed below.
Measured cost per task (DeepSWE)
This model has not been measured on DeepSWE (or any other benchmark with a real measured per-task cost) yet.
Artificial Analysis scores
Artificial Analysis scores describe capability. Compare them against estimated token spend with your cache mix; these estimates are not measured task costs.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| AA intelligence index | 27.0 |
| AA coding index | 61.8 |
| Variant | Coding Elo | Overall Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 1,489 | 1,455 | 40,013 |