Released 83 days after Kimi K2.5 · Announcement · All Moonshot releases
Kimi K2.6, released April 20, 2026, is Moonshot's production-oriented agentic model tuned for long-horizon software engineering and complex task coordination. It is built on the same 1 trillion total parameter MoE foundation with 32 billion active parameters as K2.5, with additional post-training compute aimed at long-horizon stability, instruction following, and multi-agent coordination. The model posts strong software engineering results, reaching 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified and 89.6% on LiveCodeBench, with strength in end-to-end coding across languages such as Rust, Go, and Python plus front-end and DevOps work. It adds native video input on top of image support through its MoonViT vision encoder, extending its multimodal range to dynamic visual content. A defining capability is agent swarm orchestration at scale, coordinating up to 300 specialized sub-agents across 4,000 coordinated steps for autonomous task decomposition. It supports a 256K context window, multimodal input across text, images, and video, and an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Kimi K2.6 runs on 9 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. In the EU it is served by evroc (Sweden) and Inceptron. See every Kimi model hosted in the EU. One route also sells flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output | Cache read | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.16 | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| US | No | $0.75 | $3.50 | $0.15 | ||||
| US | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | $0.19 | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| EU | No | $1.51 | $6.03 | Input price | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| US | No | $0.60 | $3.20 | Input price | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| EU | No | $0.47 | $2.45 | $0.10 | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| Multi | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | Input price | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| US | No | $0.80 | $3.40 | $0.16 | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route | ||
| Multi | No | $0.86 | $3.57 | $0.14 | Not offered on this route | Not offered on this route |
Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=kimi-k2.6
Kimi K2.6 runs on 4 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.
Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. 5 further routes for this model are not on the board yet and are not counted above. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.
Each route hosting Kimi K2.6 has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.
Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. US; dpf sccs; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Content is retained: provider logging. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.
Where Kimi K2.6 ranks among the models on Opper with a score for each use case.
Independent benchmark scores: the Intelligence Index and the individual evaluations behind it, grouped by skill.
Call Kimi K2.6 through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.
Kimi K2.6 is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.
Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.
import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({model: "kimi-k2.6",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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