Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · Open Weight · rank 35 · bench-align-v5
Canonical idkimi-2-6
Access typeOpen Weight
Blended $/1M$1.7175% input / 25% output
Capability shape
Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.
Runtime service evidence
Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.
Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.
Evidence key: Observed
| Measurement | Value | Observed | Last good | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first token | 3.07 s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 | |
| Throughput | 37 tok/s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.
Endpoint and price matrix
Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.
| Component | USD | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.95 | |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.00 | |
| Cache read / 1M tokens | Unavailable | |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | Unavailable | |
| Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output) | $1.71 |
Self-hosted listingMoonshot's Kimi API platform homepage lists K2.6 at $0.95 input / $4.00 output per million tokens.The rates above are a hosted price matched from another provider, not a first-party list price.
Workload-aware monthly cost example
10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.
Benchmark record
54 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.
Knowledge
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A | 90.5 | 448 questions | Graduate level | GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark |
| GPQA-D GPQA Diamond | 90.5 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate level | Trinity-Large-Thinking: Scaling an Open Source Frontier Agent |
| HLE Humanity's Last Exam | 34.7 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert level | Humanity's Last Exam |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 27.5 | Cross-benchmark intelligence index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-GPQA Diamond Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond | 91.1 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate-level science reasoning | Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-HLE Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert reasoning | Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-Omniscience Index Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index | 5.3 | Knowledge questions | Broad factual knowledge | AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy | 32.6 | Knowledge questions | Broad knowledge | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate | 40.5 | Knowledge questions | Factuality | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run | 89.1 | Graduate-level science questions | Expert reasoning | Vals AI GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run | 87.6 | Academic multiple-choice questions | Broad academic knowledge | Vals AI MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run leaderboard |
Coding
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 66.7 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | Terminal-Bench 2.0 |
| SWE-bench Verified Software Engineering Benchmark Verified | 80.2 | 500 verified issues | Professional software engineering | SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? |
| LiveCodeBench v6 LiveCodeBench v6 | 89.6 | Fresh programming problems | Competitive programming level | LiveCodeBench official repository and release documentation |
| SWE-bench Pro SWE-bench Pro | 58.6 | 1,865 repository problems | Long-horizon professional engineering | SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks? |
| SWE Multilingual SWE Multilingual | 76.7 | Multilingual software-engineering tasks | Professional software engineering | MiniMax M2.7: Early Echoes of Self-Evolution |
| Vibe Code Bench Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 37.89 | End-to-end web application builds | End-to-end software delivery | Vibe Code Bench: Evaluating AI Models on End-to-End Web Application Development |
| SciCode Scientific Code Benchmark | 52.2 | — | — | BenchLM |
| AA Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index | 61.8 | Cross-benchmark coding index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA-SciCode Artificial Analysis SciCode | 51.5 | Scientific coding subproblems | Scientific programming | Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run | 86.8 | Competitive programming problems (easy, medium, hard) | Frontier coding | Vals AI LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| SWE-bench (Vals) SWE-bench, Vals AI run | 76.2 | Real repository issues by human time bucket | Frontier coding agents | Vals AI SWE-bench, Vals AI run leaderboard |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIME26 AIME 2026 | 96.4 | Competition math problems | Olympiad-style mathematics | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
| HMMT Feb 2026 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament February 2026 | 92.7 | Competition math problems | Olympiad-style mathematics | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
| MMAnswerBench MMAnswerBench | 86.0 | Multimodal math questions | Advanced mathematical reasoning | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3 | 38.966 | 295 private advanced mathematics problems | From olympiad-plus to early research mathematics | FrontierMath v2 benchmark hub |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) FrontierMath v2 Tier 4 | 14.580 | 43 private extreme-difficulty mathematics problems | Research-level mathematics requiring hours or days of expert work | FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 leaderboard |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA-LCR Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning | 81.0 | Long-context reasoning tasks | Long-context reasoning | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| CritPt Critical Physics Tasks | 8.0 | Research-level physics questions | Research-level physics reasoning | CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard |
Instruction Following
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA-IFBench Artificial Analysis IFBench | 76.0 | Verifiable instruction constraints | Instruction precision | Artificial Analysis IFBench Benchmark Leaderboard |
Agentic
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 66.7 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | Terminal-Bench 2.0 |
| BrowseComp BrowseComp | 83.2 | Research questions requiring browsing | Hard web research | BrowseComp |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA | 1115 | Agentic real-world work tasks | Professional agentic workflows | DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA normalized | 29.8 | Economically valuable tasks | Professional agentic workflows | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index | 22.1 | Cross-benchmark agentic index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| APEX-Agents-AA APEX-Agents-AA | 28.5 | 452 professional-services agent tasks | Long-horizon workplace agent tasks | APEX-Agents-AA Benchmark Leaderboard |
| Gert Labs Gert Labs Composite Game Benchmark | 56.82 | Novel game environments | Agentic coding and decision-making | Gert Labs rankings |
| OSWorld-Verified OSWorld-Verified | 73.1 | 369 real-world computer tasks (361 when eight Google Drive tasks are excluded) | Multi-step desktop and cross-application workflows | OSWorld |
| OSWorld 2.0 OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6 | 108 long-horizon computer-use workflows | Long-horizon professional workflows | OSWorld2.0: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on Long-Horizon Real-World Tasks |
| MCP Atlas MCP Atlas | 55.9 | Tool-integrated agent tasks | Advanced tool use | Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano |
| Toolathlon Toolathlon | 50 | Multi-tool workflows | Advanced tool use | Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano |
| τ²-bench results τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation | 95.9 | Airline, retail, and telecom customer-service task sets | Dual-control customer-service workflows | τ²-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environment |
| DeepSearchQA DeepSearchQA | 92.5 | Agentic browsing and list-answer questions | Agentic web research | Muse Spark Eval Methodology |
| Claw-Eval Claw-Eval | 62.3 | 300 tasks, 2,159 rubrics | Real-world general, multi-turn, and native multimodal agent execution | Claw-Eval: Towards Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents |
| ResearchClawBench ResearchClawBench | 18.0 | 40 tasks across 10 scientific domains | Scientific research re-discovery | ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research |
| WideResearch WideResearch | 80.8 | Open-ended research tasks | Broad research-agent workflows | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run | 53.6 | Difficult terminal tasks | Frontier agentic | Vals AI Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run leaderboard |
Multimodal & Grounded
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMMU-Pro Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Pro | 79.4 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark |
| AA-MMMU-Pro Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro | 79.4 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro Benchmark Leaderboard |
| Design Arena Website Design Arena Website Elo | 1282 | Website generation comparisons | Design and website generation | OpenRouter Grok 4.3 benchmarks |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python MMMU-Pro with Python | 80.1 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano |
| MathVision MathVision | 87.4 | Visually grounded math problems | Advanced multimodal mathematics | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
| V* V* | 96.9 | Frontier multimodal reasoning tasks | Frontier multimodal | GLM-5V-Turbo |
| CharXiv CharXiv Reasoning | 80.4 | Scientific chart reasoning | Scientific visualization reasoning | CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs |
Lifecycle and limitations log
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