Coding-agent users get a capable open model at under $1 per million input tokens, with self-hosting as an option.

Kenning's take

What it does

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight model from Moonshot AI aimed at long coding runs, front-end design from prompts, and agents that keep working in the background. Its Agent Swarm scales to 300 sub-agents across 4,000 steps, up from 100 in K2.5. It is available on Kimi.com, the Kimi app, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, and as weights on Hugging Face.

• Long-horizon coding in Rust, Go and Python
• Front-end generation from prompts
• Agent Swarm up to 300 sub-agents
• Thinking and non-thinking modes with image and video input
• 256K token context

Who it suits. Developers and teams who run coding agents or long background tasks.

Key facts

Category

AI models

Part of

Kimi

Made by

Moonshot AI

Based in

China

Released

20 April 2026

How to get it

on Kimi.com, the Kimi app, Kimi Code and the Kimi API (kimi-k2.6), plus open weights on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT licence

Works on

Web, iOS, Android, API, self-hosted

Free plan

Weights free to download; chat access on Kimi.com

API price

$0.95 per million input tokens ($0.16 cached), $4 per million output

Reviews and write-ups

• TestingCatalog

FAQ

Facts from the maker's own pages and the sources listed. Checked 2026-10-11.