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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Kimi K2.6.

A model-level benchmark profile for Kimi K2.6, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Moonshot AI lab page

Lab

Moonshot AI

Open weights

Coverage

67%

6 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#8

WebDev Arena

Best suite

#9

Value / 75

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Kimi K2.6 is strongest on value.

67% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #9 in the value view, with a 75 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is WebDev Arena at rank #8 with 4,008 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#9 / 75 value index

Strongest raw signal

Code

#8, 1518 score

Commercial posture

$1.71

1.34s first token / 42 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Search ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

6 of 9 signals matched

67%

Arena categories

3/5

Code, Vision, Text

Commercial match

Live

Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning)

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

kimi-k2.6

Open weightsCodingMultimodal

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,462#28

1457-1468 CI

15,765 votes

May 27, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,518#8

1508-1528 CI

4,008 votes

May 25, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,259#19

1250-1269 CI

5,612 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$1.71

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.950

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$4.00

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

1.34s

Median time to first token

Output speed

42 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#975

value index

blended / 1M tokens$1.71
time to first token1.34s
output speed42 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#1675

coding index

Code Arena rank #81,518
No confident matchNot listed
output speed42 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#3194

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency1.34s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#2564

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #281,462
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #191,259

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#4456

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #281,462

Lab context

Nearby Moonshot AI profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Kimi K2.5 Thinking

kimi-k2.5-thinking

Open weights

Best rank

#24

Coverage

78%

Kimi K2.5 Instant

kimi-k2.5-instant

Open weights

Best rank

#30

Coverage

33%

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

kimi-k2-thinking-turbo

Open weights

Best rank

#59

Coverage

22%

Kimi K2 0905 Preview

kimi-k2-0905-preview

Open weights

Best rank

#83

Coverage

44%

Kimi K2 0711 Preview

kimi-k2-0711-preview

Open weights

Best rank

#86

Coverage

11%