moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Context length
262K
Input / 1M tokens
$0.65
Output / 1M tokens
$3.41
Released
2026-04-20
Modality
text+image->text

About MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

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...

Call MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Via OpenRouter: one base URL for every provider.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello"}]
  }'

Direct on Moonshot AI (Kimi):

curl https://api.moonshot.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MOONSHOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello"}]
  }'

Moonshot AI (Kimi) keys

OpenRouter keys

OpenRouter keys work for moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 regardless of the upstream provider.