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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendor~moonshotaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-65.3
Input Price$0.99/M$0.95/M
Output Price$12.75/M$4.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-44.5
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 132 141
Code Review 132 144
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 136 144
Bug Fixing 136 148
Unit Test Generation 124 131
Code Documentation 129 135
Regex Writing 117 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 127
Frontend Component Design 122 130
Data Analysis 124 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 134
ETL Scripting 128 136
JSON Extraction 129 131
Bulk Data Labeling 125 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 132
Long-Document Summarization 136 146
Short-Form Summarization 121 126
Blog Post Writing 120 129

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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