Released 83 days after Kimi K2.5 · 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.
Kimi K2.6 runs on 11 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi | Not by default | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | |
| US | Zero data retention | No | $0.75 | $3.50 | |
| US | Not by default | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | |
| EU | Zero data retention | No | $1.57 | $6.28 | |
| Multi | Zero data retention | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | |
| US | Zero data retention | No | $0.60 | $3.20 | |
| EU | Zero data retention | No | $0.60 | $3.41 | |
| EU | Not by default | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | |
| EU | Not by default | No | $0.95 | $4.00 | |
| US | Zero data retention | No | $0.80 | $3.40 | |
| EU | Zero data retention | No | $1.00 | $4.00 |
Kimi K2.6 runs on 5 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. 6 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 is not on by default — abuse monitoring, 30-day retention. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.
Zero data retention is not on by default — a moderation hold applies. No training on customer data. US; dpf sccs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention is not on by default — abuse monitoring. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention is not on by default — provider logging, 90-day retention. No training on customer data. EEA; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.
Call Kimi K2.6 through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.
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: "azure/kimi-k2.6",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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