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Kimi K2.6

Trillion-parameter open-weight coding and agentic specialist from Moonshot AI, competitive with closed frontier models.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#55
Tier
A
Score
75.8
Main category
Coding

Strengths

  • Trillion-parameter open-weight scale
  • Strong scores on independent coding comparisons
  • Credible production architecture for agentic workflows

Considerations

  • Large hardware footprint for self-hosting
  • Trails the top closed frontier on the hardest reasoning

Price

Open weights (Modified MIT); API $0.95 input / $4 output per 1M tokens via Moonshot ($0.16 cached input)

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Score breakdown

Performance
80.0
55% of score
Reputation
80.0
35% of score
Recency
38.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

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