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Kimi K2.6

Rating: 71.3
Author: PickAIModel.com

Moonshot AI

Replacement delta versus Kimi K2.5: Compared with Kimi K2.5, the replaced model from the previous published roster.

Verified evidenceDecision brief

Quality Score

71.3Stable

PickAI Conversation Value

~333 conversations equivalentStable

Ease of use: 90% | Ready to use

Responsiveness

n/a

n/a8 tok/s

Verified

Apr 24, 2026

Normal use: ~333 conversations equivalent at published API rates.

PickAI Conversation Value measures buying power at API rates. Ease of use is shown separately as a buyer-accessibility signal.

Replacement reference: Kimi K2.5. Quality delta 15.0, value delta 13.1.

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Kimi K2.6 conversation value at your pace

Move the usage slider to see how the monthly price translates into PickAI Conversation Value at published API rates. Ease of use stays separate so you can distinguish buying power from buyer accessibility.

PickAI conversation value

~333 conversations equivalent

Usage intensity

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One normal prompt, one full reply, and a couple of follow-up turns.

Selected tier

Kimi Membership

PickAI Conversation Value

~333 conversations equivalent

Ease of use

90% | Ready to use

Normal use: ~333 conversations equivalent at published API rates.

This estimate uses the shared normal conversation basket: 1,200 input tokens and 1,800 output tokens, or 3k tokens total. Standard conversation cost = (input tokens × API input price + output tokens × API output price) / 1,000,000.

API pricing basis: $0.16 / 1M input, $0.16 / 1M output

PickAI Conversation Value measures buying power at API rates. Ease of use is shown separately as a buyer-accessibility signal.

90% · Ready to use. Based on a hosted consumer app, no technical setup, and a free tier or trial.

Pricing calculator tiers for Kimi K2.6.
Tier	Monthly price	Ease of use	PickAI Conversation Value	Rate note
Free Free tier	$0	90% \| Ready to use	Free tier	Free access exists, but the vendor does not publish a fixed monthly token allowance for this hosted tier and practical limits vary by workload.
Kimi MembershipPrimary Usage limits not disclosed	$0.16	90% \| Ready to use	~333 conversations equivalent	Usage limits vary by workload and should be checked against the vendor current plan controls.

Consumer access

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Monthly price: Kimi Membership: $0.16/month
App access: Kimi

Verified vendor fact

Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.

Verified vendor fact

Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.

What it feels like

Task fit

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Speed: Response speed is grounded in the current OpenRouter performance page for this model.
Free plan limits: Free access exists, but practical limits vary by workload and current vendor policy.
Writing quality: Writing quality guidance updates after the current Supabase snapshot refresh.

Editorial estimate

This is a buyer-facing summary of the hosted product experience, not a verbatim vendor claim.

For cautious buyers

Trust

Privacy: Privacy guidance remains conservative and should be checked against the vendor current controls.
Languages: Language support guidance remains conservative until refreshed buyer notes are generated.
Context window: Context guidance reflects the current acquired retrieval evidence for this model.

Editorial estimate

Privacy guidance is summarized conservatively for buyers and should be checked against the vendor current controls.

Response speed, writing quality, and privacy are subjective buyer-facing editorial notes. They are intentionally not part of the numeric benchmark score.

Official ecosystem

Official tools and surfaces

Verified vendor fact0 tools

These are the verified first-party tools or official product surfaces currently listed for Kimi K2.6. If there is no verified specialized tool beyond a general chat surface, this section stays minimal.

Only verified first-party surfaces are listed.

No verified specialized tools are listed in the current snapshot for this model.

Editorial Verdict

AI-generated

Pros

AI-generated

Source-backed benchmark and pricing inputs acquired during refresh.

Cons

AI-generated

Editorial guidance remains conservative until the current model row is refreshed in Supabase.

Best For

AI-generated

General AI work

Not Ideal For

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Unsupported use cases

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Capability Dimensions

Sub-scores

Reasoning & Logic71%

Coding & Math0%

Factual Grounding0%

Context Window0%

Speed / Responsiveness0%

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Technical Benchmarks

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Technical benchmark details for this model.
Benchmark	Metric	Score	Source	Retrieved
Humanity's Last Exam Live source acquisition	Normalized quality input	35.9%	Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.	2026-04-24

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Tier

Monthly price

Ease of use

PickAI Conversation Value

Rate note

Free

Free tier

90% | Ready to use

Free tier

Free access exists, but the vendor does not publish a fixed monthly token allowance for this hosted tier and practical limits vary by workload.

Kimi MembershipPrimary

Usage limits not disclosed

$0.16

90% | Ready to use

~333 conversations equivalent

Usage limits vary by workload and should be checked against the vendor current plan controls.