Moonshot AI model

Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

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JSON modeLong contextStreamingTool callingVision
Input price$0.73 / 1M tokens
Output price$3.49 / 1M tokens
Context length262.1k tokens
AvailabilityCatalog

Best use cases

  • long Chinese documents
  • contract review
  • knowledge-base Q&A

OpenAI-compatible code example

Keep the OpenAI SDK style, set base_url to NextModel, and use the catalog model ID kimi-k2-6.

Python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.nextmodel.app/v1"
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="kimi-k2-6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello from NextModel"}]
)

print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

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FAQ

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 API questions

What is Kimi K2.6 good for?

It is best compared for long Chinese documents, review workflows, and knowledge-base Q&A.