Kimi K2.6

by Moonshot

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.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
262K
Max output
262K
Input price
$0.95 /1M$0.16 cache read
Output price
$4.00 /1M
Released
  • EU residency available
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Kimi K2.6 runs on 10 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.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
MultiNo$0.95$4.00$0.16
Multi—Not established—$0.95$4.00$0.16
USNo$0.75$3.50$0.15
USNo$0.95$4.00$0.19
EUNo$1.54$6.16Input price
USNo$0.60$3.20Input price
EUNo$0.47$2.58$0.13
MultiNo$0.95$4.00Input price
USNo$0.80$3.40$0.16
EUNo$1.00$4.00$0.25

Uptime and availability

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.

100%effective uptime, last 30 days
Averaged across these routes on their own, a single provider reached 99.55% over the same window.
Daily status through the gateway, which serves each request from whichever route is healthy.
4 monitored providers serve Kimi K2.6.

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.

Data handling per route

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.

Azure — Multi-region

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
With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Baidu Qianfan — China🇨🇳

Zero data retention posture is not established for this route. Training posture pending review. GLOBAL; unknown.

Zero data retention
Not established.
GDPR DPA
No DPA
Transfer mechanism
unknown

DeepInfra — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

DigitalOcean — United States🇺🇸

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
With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
Always on, holds flagged content, stored in United States
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
dpf sccs

evroc — Sweden🇸🇪

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
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Geodd — United States🇺🇸

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
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Not cached
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Inceptron — Sweden🇸🇪

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
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Nebius — Multi-region

Content is retained: provider logging. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Retained: provider logging.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Other
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Novita — United States🇺🇸

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
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

TensorX — European Union🇪🇺

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
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Intelligence Index27.0
Coding Index61.8
Reasoning & knowledge
GPQA Diamond
91%
Humanity's Last Exam
38%
Long-context reasoning
81%
Coding
SciCode
52%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
44%
τ²-Bench Telecom
96%
Math & instruction following
IFBench
76%

Get started

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.

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Or call it directly

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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