Kimi K2.6 API: Pricing and Specs

Kimi K2.6 API

Kimi K2.6 is a large language model by Moonshot AI, available on the Venice API as kimi-k2-6. Private and end-to-end encrypted variants are available.Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model from Moonshot AI with 1T total parameters and 32B active parameters. It excels at long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, agent swarm orchestration, and proactive autonomous execution with a 256K-token context window.

Kimi K2.6 API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`kimi-k2-6`	Standard	Private	$0.75 / $3.50 per 1M
`e2ee-kimi-k2-6`	E2EE	E2EE	$0.87 / $4.12 per 1M

Kimi K2.6 specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	Moonshot AI
Released	Apr 20, 2026
Privacy	Private, E2EE
Status	Stable
Open weights	Yes
Context window	256K tokens
Max output	64K tokens
Reasoning effort	none, low, medium, high
Served precision	INT4

How to use the Kimi K2.6 API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions with "model": "kimi-k2-6" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "kimi-k2-6",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain TEE attestation in two sentences." }],
    "reasoning_effort": "high"
  }'

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