Kimi K2.6 API — pricing, playground & code

Name: Kimi K2.6 API
Brand: Moonshot AI

Overview

About Kimi K2.6

Moonshot's value tier — K3-style agentic tool-calling at half the price, a favorite for high-volume agent loops. Every model on CompanyFabric shares the same API key, billing balance, and rate-limit envelope — one integration covers the entire library.

Facts

At a glance

Availability

Live

Pricing

$0.6/Mtok in

Metered exactly per call

Context window

256k tokens

Commercial use

See license

Commercial output use permitted per Moonshot terms.

Variants

All endpoints

Kimi K3

$1.2/Mtok in

Agentic coding model with strong multi-step tool use.

Chat Completions

Kimi K2.6

$0.6/Mtok in

Moonshot's value tier — K3-style agentic tool-calling at half the price, a favorite for high-volume agent loops.

Chat Completions

Quickstart

How to use the Kimi K2.6 API

1
Create a free CompanyFabric account — starter credits are included, no card required.
2
Copy your API key from the dashboard. One key covers every model in the library.
3
Point any OpenAI SDK at api.companyfabric.com/v1 and set model to "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6".
4
Read the exact metered cost of the call from the response — the same number shown in the playground.

Use cases

What teams build with it

Agents & copilots

Drive agent loops, tool calls, and user-facing assistants over the OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

agentstool useassistants

Content pipelines

Summarization, rewriting, and structured generation at metered per-token cost.

contentsummarization

Extraction & classification

Turn unstructured input into typed JSON with schema-constrained output.

extractionjson mode

Get better output

Prompting tips

State the output format before the task — models follow contracts declared early.
Few-shot beats description: two worked examples outperform a paragraph of rules.
Cap output length explicitly when cost matters; output tokens dominate most bills.

Exact, metered, prepaid

Kimi K2.6 pricing

Kimi K2.6 pricing is per token: $0.6 / M input · $1.8 / M output. Output tokens cost 3× input tokens, so long generations — not long prompts — are what actually drive most bills. A typical call with a 2k-token prompt and a 1k-token answer costs about $0.0030.

Every call is metered exactly and attributed to your key — the dashboard, the API usage response, and your invoice all read from the same ledger row. Cap any key's monthly spend with a budget cap, and bring your own provider key (BYOK) at 0% platform fee if you already have a direct contract.

Endpoint	Type	Price
Kimi K3	Chat	$1.2 / M input · $3.6 / M output
Kimi K2.6	Chat	$0.6 / M input · $1.8 / M output

Starter credits

Use Kimi K2.6 free

Your CompanyFabric starter credits cover your first Kimi K2.6 calls at no cost — create a free account, no card required, and the credits apply to Kimi K2.6 and every other model on the key. When they run out, prepaid credits or BYOK (0% fee) take over with no plan to pick.

All ways to use AI models free →Run Kimi K2.6 locally (open weights) →

Production-grade

Code samples

import OpenAI from "openai"

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.companyfabric.com/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.COMPANYFABRIC_API_KEY,
})

const res = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  temperature: 0.7,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Say hello from the fabric." }],
})

console.log(res.choices[0].message.content)

Playground

Try it in the browser

Playground$0.6 in / $1.8 out per 1M tokens

Model

Max output

Prompt

Comparisons

Kimi K2.6 vs the alternatives

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4

Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 compete for the same text workloads. Both run behind the same CompanyFabric key at exact metered prices — A/B them on your real prompts and let the outputs decide, then switch with a one-line change.

Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3 Coder

Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 Coder compete for the same text workloads. Both run behind the same CompanyFabric key at exact metered prices — A/B them on your real prompts and let the outputs decide, then switch with a one-line change.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Kimi K2.6 API cost?

$0.6 / M input · $1.8 / M output. Every call is metered exactly and shown before you run it.

How do I get a Kimi K2.6 API key?

Create a CompanyFabric account, and one key unlocks Kimi K2.6 and every other model in the library. Free starter credits are included — no subscription, no card required to try it.

Why use Kimi K2.6 on CompanyFabric instead of going direct?

One key, one prepaid balance, and one rate-limit envelope across the whole library, at pricing at parity with or below the direct API. Model switching is a one-line change, and BYOK routing is 0% fee.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?

Yes — point any OpenAI SDK at api.companyfabric.com/v1 and set model to "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6".

Can I use the output commercially?

Commercial output use permitted per Moonshot terms.

How does billing work?

Prepaid credits via card, or BYOK with your own provider keys at 0% platform fee. No subscription required; balances never expire.

Provider

About Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI publishes the kimi family. Also in this family: Kimi K3. License: Commercial output use permitted per Moonshot terms.

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