moonshotai

Kimi K2.6

Input / 1M: $0.9975
Output / 1M: $4.2
Context: 262,000 tokens
Catalog: Gateway catalog

About this model

Kimi K2.6 demonstrates particularly strong performance in long-horizon coding tasks and produces professional-grade design with code and vision.

Replaces Kimi K2.5: input $0.63 → $0.9975 per 1M (+58%), output $3.15 → $4.2 per 1M (+33%), context 256K → 262K, max output 256K → 262K.

text inputimage inputvideo inputtext outputlanguage

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1const response = await fetch('https://api.minirouter.sh/v1/chat/completions', {2  method: 'POST',3  headers: {4    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MINIROUTER_KEY}`,5    'Content-Type': 'application/json',6  },7  body: JSON.stringify({8    model: 'moonshotai/kimi-k2.6',9    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Why is the sky blue?' }],10    max_tokens: 1024,11  }),12})13 14const data = await response.json()15console.log(data.choices[0].message.content)

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Overview

Model type: language
Context window: 262,000
Maximum output: 262,000
Input / 1M tokens: $0.9975
Output / 1M tokens: $4.2
Released: 2026-04-20

Prices include the MiniRouter fee. Compatibility snapshot: 2026-08-06. Input: text, image, video. Output: text.

Endpoints

/v1/chat/completions/v1/messages/v1/responses

Platform-funded routing only. Caller BYOK credentials and OIDC-based upstream authentication are intentionally excluded; authenticate with a MiniRouter bearer key.

Captured parameters: max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice, reasoning, include_reasoning, response_format, structured_outputs.

Structured output: JSON Schema and JSON mode enforced on verified providers. How it works

API

Use the setup panel above to switch between Chat Completions, Messages, and client configurations. Every snippet keeps the model ID unchanged.

Base URLhttps://api.minirouter.sh/v1

Model IDmoonshotai/kimi-k2.6

Providers

MiniRouter selects from the configured routes below. Priority is the catalog order, not a latency or availability score.

Provider	Priority	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Parameters	Access
vercel	1	$0.9975	$4.2	max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice, reasoning, include_reasoning, response_format, structured_outputs	MiniRouter balance