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Kimi K2.6 API Pricing
Kimi K2.6 costs $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4.50 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.20 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.20 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.50 |
Verified 2026-08-12 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$5.70
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.2325
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$21.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$1.58
Cached input is about 83% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for Kimi K2.6
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only Kimi K2.6, so the result stays focused on this model.
Input cost
$1.20
Output cost
$4.50
Total
$5.70
Price history
No list-price movement across 193 daily snapshots from 2026-05-02 to 2026-11-11.
When to use Kimi K2.6
Good fit
- Together AI workloads where this price tier and API surface fit your existing stack
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first