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Kimi

by Moonshot AI  ·  Freemium

Open-source agentic coding model by Moonshot AI with 1T parameters, 80.2% SWE-Bench Verified, and 300-agent swarm for autonomous long-horizon tasks.

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📋 Editorial Review

In-Depth Editorial
Kimi K2.6 Review 2026: Benchmarks, Pricing, and How It Compares to Claude
Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's open-weight agentic model released April 20, 2026. It leads SWE-Bench Pro at 58.6% — ahead of GPT-5.4 (57.7%) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53.4%) — with API access starting at $0.60 per million input tokens on the Moonshot platform. Here is what it does well, where it trails, and who should use it.
✎ pat bob 🕑 8 min read 👁 3,077 views
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About Kimi

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's latest open-source multimodal agentic model, released April 20, 2026. Built on a 1 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 32B active parameters, it leads open-source benchmarks on agentic coding with 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified and 54.0% on Humanity's Last Exam with tools. Four operational modes — Instant, Thinking, Agent, and Agent Swarm — handle everything from quick code lookups to 12-hour autonomous development sessions coordinating 300 parallel sub-agents across 4,000 tool calls. The model is free on kimi.com, available via API at $0.60/M input tokens, and self-hostable via Hugging Face weights under a Modified MIT License.

✅ Key Features

  • 300-agent swarm (4,000 coordinated steps),Native video and image input,12-hour autonomous coding sessions,INT4 quantization for local deployment,Interleaved thinking with multi-step tool calls,WebGL and 3D UI generation from prompts,256K token context window,Kimi Code CLI (open-source terminal agent)

🧩 Specs

Platforms
WebiOSAndroidAPICLI
Integrations
OllamavLLMSGLangKTransformersVercelTencent CodeBuddyFactory.aiHugging Face
Languages
EnglishChineseMultilingual (25+ languages on code benchmarks)

🎯 Best For & Tags

Best For
Long-horizon agentic codingFull-stack app generationMulti-file codebase refactoringBatch document and slide generationResearch and competitive analysisLocal model optimizationMultilingual code repair
Tags
Coding AIAI agentsOpen SourceGenerative AIProductivity

⭐ User Reviews

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★★★★☆
4/5 23 Apr 2026
Really good — Kimi K2.6
“Great for refactoring legacy code, Inline documentation generation is fast”
By pattwentyfive
✓ Pros

Great for refactoring legacy code, Inline documentation generation is fast

✗ Cons

Autocomplete can slow IDE down, Can introduce security vulnerabilities

⚖ Comparisons

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Kimi K3 vs Claude Sonnet 5: Identical API Pricing From Today
From today both sit at $3 and $15 per million. That removes the argument most comparisons lead with and leaves the ones that matter — ecosystem depth against open weights, and a tokenizer change that only affects one of them.
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GLM-5.3 vs Kimi K3: Two Open Coding Models, One You Can Actually Run
GLM-5.3 posts the stronger agentic coding numbers on vendor testing. Kimi K3 has a clearer licence position and a genuinely free chat tier. If you plan to self-host, the licence matters more than the benchmark.
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Kimi Moderato vs SuperGrok: $19 vs $30, and the Free Tiers Tell You More
Moderato at $19 undercuts SuperGrok at $30 by eleven dollars, but the more useful difference is underneath: Kimi Adagio gives unlimited K2.6 chat without touching credits, while Grok free caps at roughly ten messages per two hours.
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Kimi Moderato vs Allegretto: Is the Jump From $19 to $39 Worth It
Kimi meters in credits across five tiers. Moderato at 19 dollars is the first with K3 access and undercuts every 20 dollar Western competitor. Allegretto at 39 adds the agent tooling. Whether that doubling is worth it comes down to whether you run agents or just chat.
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Kimi Vivace vs SuperGrok Heavy: $199 vs $300 for the Top Tier
Vivace at 199 dollars and SuperGrok Heavy at 300 are the ceilings of their respective ladders. Neither is worth buying unless you are hitting limits, and the honest test is whether you have been blocked in the last month.
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