vs
7:5
overall capability wins (1 ties across 13 scored). Kimi K2.6 leads overall.
- Reasoning4:2
- Coding2:1
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices2:0
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Kimi K2.6 leads coding (widest gap: +36.1 on WebDev Elo); Kimi K2.7 Code offers larger context (262K vs 256K); Kimi K2.7 Code allows ~2.0x more max output (33K vs 16K).
- Kimi K2.6 leads coding (widest gap: +36.1 on WebDev Elo)
- Kimi K2.7 Code offers larger context (262K vs 256K)
- Kimi K2.7 Code allows ~2.0x more max output (33K vs 16K)
- Kimi K2.7 Code ships open weights (Modified MIT)
- Kimi K2.6 is ~2.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Kimi K2.7 Code
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Kimi K2.6
- $1
- Kimi K2.7 Code
- $1.95
Kimi K2.6 is about 1.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Moonshot
Moonshot
Family
Kimi
Kimi
License
Proprietary
Modified MIT
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Apr 8, 2026
Jun 12, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Moonshot
Moonshot
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
256K
262K
Max output
16K
33K
Parameters
—
1.0T (32B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.50
$0.95
Output $/1M
$2
$4
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.88
$1.71
Speed
tok/s
70
55
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.5
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
91.1
89.6
Humanity's Last Exam
37.5
35.0
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
32.6
39.6
AA-LCR v1.1
81.0
79.3
CritPt
8.0
10.0
MMMU-Pro
79.4
—
IFBench
76.0
63.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
65.9
67.4
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
51.5
47.8
CursorBench
—
49.7
SWE-Rebench
46.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,509
1,473
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,460
—
| Metric | Kimi K2.6 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Moonshot | Moonshot | — |
| Family | Kimi | Kimi | — |
| License | Proprietary | Modified MIT | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 8, 2026 | Jun 12, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Moonshot | Moonshot | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 262K | B +6K |
| Max output | 16K | 33K | B +16K |
| Parameters | — | 1.0T (32B act.) | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.50 | $0.95 | A +$0.45 |
| Output $/1M | $2 | $4 | A +$2 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.88 | $1.71 | A +$0.84 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 70 | 55 | A +15 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.5 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.1 | 89.6 | A +1.5 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5 | 35.0 | A +2.5 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 32.6 | 39.6 | B +7.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 81.0 | 79.3 | A +1.7 pts |
| CritPt | 8.0 | 10.0 | B +2.0 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.4 | — | — |
| IFBench | 76.0 | 63.1 | A +12.9 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 65.9 | 67.4 | B +1.5 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 51.5 | 47.8 | A +3.7 pts |
| CursorBench | — | 49.7 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 46.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,509 | 1,473 | A +36 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,460 | — | — |
Kimi K2.6
- Context
- 256K / 16K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.50 / $2
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Post-K2.5 Moonshot API SKU with longer context and stronger multimodal agent tooling.
Kimi K2.7 Code
- Context
- 262K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 1.0T (32B act.)
- Price
- $0.95 / $4
- Speed
- 55 tok/s · 0.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Modified MIT
Open-weight coding specialist (1T MoE / 32B active) with text/image/video input — long-horizon agentic software engineering at $0.95/$4; HighSpeed SKU is $1.90/$8 at ~180 tok/s.
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