Published 2026-08-16 · 赵予安
Direct answer
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.6 CN is listed at 0.130 input per million tokens. Context window and CacheSafety for this exact id stay unpublished. This guide is written for UK product and platform teams comparing model quality, spend, routing policy, and production rollout risk.
What shipped
Moonshot AI has shipped Kimi K2.6 CN, a model now live in the NextModel gateway catalog with the public id moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-cn. The provider is Moonshotai. The catalog display name is Kimi K2.6 CN.
Model id and pricing
The public model id is moonshotai/kimi-k2.6-cn. Input price is $0.130 per 1 million tokens. Output price is $0.538 per 1 million tokens. The context window is not published in the catalog. Related catalog entries include Kimi K2.7 Code CN at the same token prices, Kimi K2.5 CN at $0.084 in and $0.437 out, and MoonshotAI Kimi K3 at $0.427 in and $2.128 out.
Performance and capabilities
The catalog records a latency band of 1000 to 3000 ms. Streaming is a supported capability. No first-party CacheSafety Bench row exists for this exact model in the NextModel bench table. Safe Hit, Bad Hit, and trap rates are not in these notes.
Who this is for
The NextModel catalog classifies Kimi K2.6 CN under the use case quality. That makes it a fit for workloads where output quality is the stated selection priority. Its lower output price relative to Kimi K3 also makes it a budget option among Moonshot AI catalog entries.
Unverified
The release date is unpublished in this catalog snapshot. Independent third-party quality scores are not in these notes. The context window is treated as unpublished because the catalog value is 0.