Moonshot AI · AI model API pricing
How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?
The agentic-coding favourite — under $1 input with strong tool-use performance at a fraction of Western mid-tier prices.
Rate card
| Input tokens | $0.95 / 1M |
| Cached input | $0.16 / 1M |
| Output tokens | $4 / 1M |
| Context window | 262K |
What that means per month
| Workload | Tokens / month | Cost / month |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 1M in · 0.3M out | $2.15/mo |
| Small app | 10M in · 3M out | $21.5/mo |
| Production app | 50M in · 15M out | $108/mo |
| High volume | 200M in · 60M out | $430/mo |
| Heavy platform | 1B in · 300M out | $2,150/mo |
Standard on-demand rates from Moonshot AI's official pricing docs, last checked 2026-07-17. Cache-hit input bills at $0.16 per 1M. Monthly figures exclude caching and batch discounts. Confirm live pricing before committing.
Cheaper alternatives
At a reference workload of 10M input / 3M output tokens a month, these cost less than Kimi K2.6 ($21.5/mo):
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GPT-5.4 Mini $21/mo -
Grok 4.3 $20/mo -
GLM-4.7 $12.6/mo