MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is a model from Moonshot AI that accepts text and image input and supports tool use and reasoning. It offers a 262,144-token context window with up to 235,929 completion tokens, so long documents and lengthy generated outputs fit within a single request. Structured output support is not listed in the available specifications, and its open-weights status is unconfirmed, so teams that depend on either should verify both before committing. Pricing sits at $0.65 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens. Because output costs more than five times as much as input, workloads that read a lot and write little will see the lowest bills. Its blended benchmark score of 90.7 rests on a single independent benchmark, EQ-Bench, where it scored 76.6. That narrow coverage leaves its broader performance unproven. Buyers who need multimodal input, tool calling, and a long context at this price should shortlist it, then run their own task-specific evaluations before relying on it.