Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight model from Moonshot AI, released April 20, 2026. Its best result is #17 of 91 on SAGE.

Release Date: Apr 20, 2026

Developer Moonshot AI ย ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ
Context Window 262k
Max Output Tokens 256k
Token Costs (in/out) $0.95/4.00
Weights Open
Input Modalities

Accuracy

56.38 %

Avg. Cost (In/Out)

$ 0.95 / $ 4.00

Latency

20 min 27 s

Vals Index
BenchmarksAccuracyRankings

27.77%

ยฑ4.14
44/79

57.85%

ยฑ2.74
39/76

44.90%

ยฑ0.73
57/81

15.87%

ยฑ2.54
66/84

40.14%

ยฑ2.04
68/107

78.15%

ยฑ1.79
67/109

65.82%

ยฑ0.93
39/98

50.22%

ยฑ3.43
17/91

56.63%

ยฑ1.29
39/50

12.40%

ยฑ2.38
57/75

74.65%

ยฑ0.85
33/145

37.89%

ยฑ4.91
72/118

89.14%

ยฑ2.00
31/138

86.77%

ยฑ0.97
20/143

84.74%

ยฑ0.45
30/151

87.57%

ยฑ0.33
25/138

86.30%

ยฑ0.83
21/93

0.00%

ยฑ0.00
52/64

76.20%

ยฑ1.91
42/88

53.56%

ยฑ2.08
53/75
Proprietary BenchmarksAcademic BenchmarksIndustry Partners
Vals
Default Provider : Moonshot AI
Temperature: 0.6
Top P: 0.95
Top K: Default
Max Output Tokens: 256,000

Updates

Apr 20, 2026

Kimi K2.6 is the new #1 open-weight model on our Vals Index! It places #7 among all models at 63.9% accuracy. Here are the key takeaways:

  • The model is a substantial jump over its predecessor Kimi K2.5 (59.6%), and narrowly edges out GLM 5.1 (63.2%) to take the top open-weight spot.
  • Coding is the modelโ€™s strongest domain: it places #4 overall on SWE-bench Verified (74.5%) and #7 on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (57.3%), leading all open-weight models on both.
  • It also performs well on Corp Fin (v2), placing #6 at 68.2%.
  • Its weaker showings are on Finance Agent (#19, 57.8%) and Case Law (v2) (#19, 61.2%), where it trails the top closed-weight models by a larger margin.

We ran all benchmarks via the native Moonshot AI provider with a temperature of 1.