Kimi K2.6 API pricing

Moonshot AI model · context 262,144 tokens · max output 262,144 · vision, reasoning. Data last changed 2026-10-08. Official pricing ↗ · Data synced from the LiteLLM price list 2026-10-08.

Input	$0.95 / 1M tokens
Output	$4.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input	$0.16 / 1M tokens

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What it costs per month

Scenario (per month)	Kimi K2.6
Customer support chatbot 5,000 req/day · 1,200 in · 400 out · cache 60%	$326
RAG over documents 2,000 req/day · 8,000 in · 600 out · cache 30%	$486
Coding agent 1,500 req/day · 25,000 in · 2,000 out · cache 80%	$718
Deep reasoning 800 req/day · 3,000 in · 6,000 out · cache 20%	$633
Batch processing 50,000 req/day · 1,500 in · 150 out · batch	$3,038

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Cheaper alternatives

Lowest monthly cost for the chatbot scenario among reasoning models:

Qwen Turbo — $21.00/mo
MiMo V2.6 Flash — $27.18/mo
GPT-5 nano — $28.14/mo
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite — $32.28/mo
Qwen Flash — $33.00/mo

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Price history

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