Moonshot AI: Kimi K2.6

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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 est un modèle multimodal conçu pour codage, génie logiciel et workflows agentiques. Il associe la gestion multimodale des entrées et de bonnes performances en codage, un contexte de 262K tokens et un profil gratuit ou sans coût pour un travail fiable sur codage, génie logiciel et workflows agentiques.

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Technical specifications

Kimi K2.6 at a glance.

Memory

262,144

tokens

Max reply

262,144

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

—

Released

Apr 2026

Training cutoff

Jan 2026

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

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    80.2

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Kimi K2.6

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

Alternatives

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FAQ

Kimi K2.6 — the questions we see most.

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Kimi K2.6 has a 262,144-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 49,152 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Kimi K2.6 supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Kimi K2.6 was released in April 2026, with training data cut off around January 2026.
Models in a similar class include Kimi K2.5, GPT-5 Nano, Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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