Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-01 · Modified MIT (commercial restrictions) license

Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI, April 2026) is a 1T-param open-weight MoE focused on agentic coding: 80.2% SWE-bench Verified, 89.6% LiveCodeBench, 90.5% GPQA, 96.4% AIME (vendor pipeline). License has commercial restrictions.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters
Architecture
Context window
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond90.5%
SWE-bench Verified80.2%
AIME96.4%
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score7.23
Community ratingNo reviews yet

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: State-of-the-art open-weight coding/agentic model (SWE-bench Verified 80.2); Very strong reasoning: GPQA 90.5, AIME 96.4; 1T MoE (32B active), 262K context; Long-horizon agentic execution

Weaknesses: Modified-MIT license with commercial-use restrictions; Coding scores use Moonshot's in-house agent framework