Model garden Router · warm Dedicated · on request

Kimi K2.6

Instantly via the EU router or as a dedicated GPU deployment. Data stays in Europe.

Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
text+image->text · moonshotai · sovereign EU
Runs on EU infrastructure operated by European companies; US marketplace capacity is never part of this chain. Full chain
1027B
Parameters
262K
Context window
4900GB
Minimum VRAM
POST /api/v1/chat/completions 200 OK

Specifications

Parameters 1027B
Context window 262,144 tokens
Minimum VRAM 4900 GB
Architecture KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration (vLLM)
License other
Modality text+image->text
Released April 2026
Publisher moonshotai ↗

Pricing

Shared router · per token
€1.15
Input (per 1M tokens)
€4.60
Output (per 1M tokens)
€0.29 per million cached input tokens
Dedicated GPU · per hour
On request
Dedicated deployment, from 4900 GB of VRAM. Billed per GPU-hour.

Shared EU router, pay-per-token, scale-to-zero. Dedicated GPU deployments are billed hourly, see pricing.

Bench index

Bench is our quality index for every model, 0 to 100. It rests on public measurements (Epoch AI with about 40 benchmarks, LiveBench, LMArena and more) and is refreshed every morning. Where nobody measures, it shows an estimate with a range.

76.3 / 100 · Measured

Measured by Epoch AI across 16 benchmarks, with a range.

Range 74.1 to 78.5 · Rank 50 of 274 at Epoch AI

Sources: Epoch AI ↗ · LiveBench ↗ · LMArena ↗ · Refreshed daily, last on 08-10-2026

LiveBench · 70.5 · Rank 56 of 69
Reasoning 79.4
Coding 78.6
Agentic coding 46.9
Mathematics 84.3
Data analysis 65.1
Language 75.1
Instruction following 64.4
Every benchmark (16)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 96.1
GPQA diamond 87.7
DTBench 84.9
SWE-Bench verified 76.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 57.2
WeirdML 55.9
LMCA 43.8
SimpleQA Verified 34.9
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private 25.6
Chess Puzzles 22.1
ExploitBench 18.4
ProofBench 16.0
Mystery Game Puzzles 9.7
OSWorld 2.0 4.6
EBR-bench 2.4
Furniture Assembly 0.0
LiveBench · All tasks
Reasoning
theory of mind 75.0
zebra puzzle 78.5
spatial 94.0
logic with navigation 70.0
Coding
code generation 78.9
code completion 78.3
Agentic coding
javascript 59.1
typescript 26.7
python 55.0
Mathematics
AMPS Hard 97.0
integrals with game 54.0
math comp 96.1
olympiad 90.0
Data analysis
consecutive events 51.3
tablejoin 46.1
tablereformat 98.0
Language
connections 89.3
plot unscrambling 58.1
typos 78.0
Instruction following
paraphrase 61.6
simplify 61.4
story generation 66.9
summarize 67.5

Call it now

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI: change only the base URL and API key. The Anthropic format (/v1/messages) is supported too.

curl https://hostyourai.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer hyai-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Frequently asked questions

Can I run Kimi K2.6 in the EU?

Yes. HostYourAI runs Kimi K2.6 on GPUs in European datacenters via vLLM. Prompts and outputs never leave the EU and there is no US cloud provider in the chain.

Is hosting Kimi K2.6 GDPR-compliant?

Yes. All processing happens inside the EU, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is available and the subprocessor list is public. Open-source weights also mean: no training on your data.

How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?

Via the shared EU router you pay €1.15 per million input tokens and €4.60 per million output tokens, with no fixed costs. For high volume or isolation you can also run Kimi K2.6 as a dedicated hourly GPU instance.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes. You use the standard OpenAI SDKs with a custom base URL (https://hostyourai.com/api/v1). The Anthropic Messages API is supported as a drop-in as well.

More models from Moonshotai

Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is an open-weight, native multimodal agentic model and our most capable model to date. It is a 2.8T-parameter model built on Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) and Attention Residuals (AttnRes), with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning.

1M context View model →
Kimi K2.7 Code

Kimi K2.7 Code is a coding-focused agentic model built upon Kimi K2.6. With substantial improvements on real-world long-horizon coding tasks, it strengthens end-to-end task completion across complex software engineering workflows while improving token efficiency, reducing thinking-token usage by approximately 30% compared with Kimi K2.6.

1027B 262K context View model →
Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model built through continual pretraining on approximately 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens atop Kimi-K2-Base. It seamlessly integrates vision and language understanding with advanced agentic capabilities, instant and thinking modes, as well as conversational and agentic paradigms.

1027B 262K context View model →
Kimi K2 Thinking

Kimi K2 Thinking is the latest, most capable version of open-source thinking model. Starting with Kimi K2, we built it as a thinking agent that reasons step-by-step while dynamically invoking tools. It sets a new state-of-the-art on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), BrowseComp, and other benchmarks by dramatically scaling multi-step reasoning depth and maintaining stable tool-use across 200–300 sequential calls. At the same time, K2 Thinking is a native INT4 quantization model with 256k context window, achieving lossless reductions in inference latency and GPU memory usage.

1026B 262K context View model →
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Base

Kimi Linear is a hybrid linear attention architecture that outperforms traditional full attention methods across various contexts, including short, long, and reinforcement learning (RL) scaling regimes. At its core is Kimi Delta Attention (KDA)—a refined version of Gated DeltaNet that introduces a more efficient gating mechanism to optimize the use of finite-state RNN memory.

49B View model →
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Kimi Linear is a hybrid linear attention architecture that outperforms traditional full attention methods across various contexts, including short, long, and reinforcement learning (RL) scaling regimes. At its core is Kimi Delta Attention (KDA)—a refined version of Gated DeltaNet that introduces a more efficient gating mechanism to optimize the use of finite-state RNN memory.

49B View model →

Try Kimi K2.6 for free

Creating an account takes a minute. Test Kimi K2.6 straight away in the playground.

Start for free