What is the context window of MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6?

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 supports a context window of 262K tokens.

Is MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 free to use?

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is a paid model. It costs $0.650 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 API Pricing — $0.650 Input / $3.41 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 cost?

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 costs $0.650 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 by Moonshotai — $0.650 input / $3.41 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 262K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$0.650

Output / 1M tokens

$3.41

Provider

Moonshotai

Context window

262K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.459	$13.76
Small app (1K/day)	$2.35	$70.65
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$30.05	$901.50
Large scale (100K/day)	$666.00	$19980.00

Model ID: moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is an LLM developed by Moonshotai. Input costs $0.650 per million tokens and output costs $3.41 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 262K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $0.650 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $3.41 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $2.3550
Monthly cost: $70.650

Accessing MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is available on OpenRouter with the model ID moonshotai/kimi-k2.6. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.