Moonshot Kimi K2.6
Live per-token pricing via OpenRouter, verified 12 Jul 2026. Batch and long-context tiers are not published in the feed, so they are omitted rather than estimated.
An estimate from published per-token pricing and your assumptions. Actual costs vary by provider and usage tier.
Same workload as the calculator above, at each model's current price. Monthly USD.
Routed-token share over time. A price line joins it as real changes are recorded.
Premium · adoption rising. Observed relationship, not proof of causation.
Availability monitoring is derived from OpenRouter provider uptime; it refreshes with the daily build. Latency and throughput are not exposed by the data source, so we do not report them rather than estimate.
| Context window | 262K |
| Reasoning | ✓ Supported |
| Tool calling | ✓ Supported |
| Structured output | ✓ Supported |
| Image input | ✓ Supported |
| Audio input | — Not supported |
| Video input | — Not supported |
| Open weights | ✓ Yes |
| API availability | ✓ Yes |
| Commercial license | Verify terms with the provider |
- Current rank
- #22
- Peak rank
- #2
- Routed share
- 0.74%
- Peak share
- 6.27%
- Weeks ranked
- 10
- First tracked
- 4 May 2026
- Region of origin
- Asia · China
- Provider
- Moonshot
- Model family
- Not publicly disclosed
- Release date
- Not publicly disclosed
- Type
- Multimodal (text + image)
- Modalities
- text, image
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Weights
- Open weight
- License
- Not publicly disclosed
In the week ending 12 Jul 2026, Moonshot Kimi K2.6 rose 7 places to #22 with 0.74% of routed tokens and a peak rank of #2. Over 10 tracked weeks its routed share has moved from 6.27% to 0.74% (-5.53 pp).
A sourced weekly interpretation of what is driving this model's routing is added as the record accumulates. yellow3 does not publish a reason for movement unless the routed-traffic data or a cited source supports it.
| Week ending | Rank | Routed share | Δ share | Movement | Region rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jul 2026 | #22 | 0.74% | +0.15 | ▲ 7places up | #10 | ranked |
| 5 Jul 2026 | #29 | 0.59% | -0.31 | ▼ 9places down | #10 | ranked |
| 28 Jun 2026 | #20 | 0.90% | -0.34 | –no change | #10 | ranked |
| 21 Jun 2026 | #20 | 1.24% | +0.29 | ▲ 4places up | #10 | ranked |
| 14 Jun 2026 | #24 | 0.95% | +0.04 | ▲ 1places up | #10 | ranked |
| 7 Jun 2026 | #25 | 0.91% | -0.83 | ▼ 12places down | #10 | ranked |
| 31 May 2026 | #13 | 1.74% | -0.55 | ▼ 3places down | #7 | ranked |
| 24 May 2026 | #10 | 2.29% | -1.63 | ▼ 4places down | #6 | ranked |
| 17 May 2026 | #6 | 3.92% | -2.35 | ▼ 4places down | #3 | ranked |
| 10 May 2026 | #2 | 6.27% | – | NEW | #2 | NEW |
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.66 | $3.41 | — | OpenRouter listed price |
Price history begins when yellow3 started tracking this model and accrues one point per change from here. Only real, observed price changes are recorded.
- 4 May 2026First trackedDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Entered top 20Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Entered top 10Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Entered top 3Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Peak routed share 6.27%Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 7 Jun 2026Biggest weekly fall -12 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 12 Jul 2026Biggest weekly rise +7 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
Region reflects where the model's developer is headquartered. Figures are OpenRouter routing traffic, aggregated over a trailing seven days - developer routing behaviour, not the whole market.