Model Details
2026-05Price Data Last Verified: June 22, 2026
Kimi K2.6 API Pricing & Cost Calculator
Current Kimi multimodal model for long-context coding and agent workloads.
Pricing Details
- Provider
- Moonshot AI
- Input Price
- $0.942 / 1M tokens
- Output Price
- $3.913 / 1M tokens
- Context Window
- 256K
Official source: platform.kimi.com
Official Kimi pricing is published in CNY. The calculator uses the cache-miss input price converted to USD.
Cost Scenarios
Small Request$0.0049
Medium Request$0.0485
Large Request$0.2899
High Volume$2.8985
Detailed Cost Breakdown
| Scenario | Input Tokens | Output Tokens | Input Cost | Output Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Request | 1,000 | 1,000 | $0.0009 | $0.0039 | $0.0049 |
| Medium Request | 10,000 | 10,000 | $0.0094 | $0.0391 | $0.0485 |
| Large Request | 100,000 | 50,000 | $0.0942 | $0.1957 | $0.2899 |
| High Volume | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | $0.942 | $1.9565 | $2.8985 |
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