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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 API Pricing
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 costs $0.950 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.160). Context window: 262K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.950
Output / 1M tokens
$4.00
Context window
262K
Max output
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What would MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $23.60 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $78.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $174.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $46.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...
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