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Kimi K2.6 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Kimi K2.6, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#35of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 53 across 3 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Kimi K2.6

Artificial Analysis

#21of 51

Score 27.0. Best run: moonshotai/kimi-k2.6.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

#25of 34

Score 70.5. Best run: Kimi K2.6 Thinking.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#21of 79

Score 1461. Best run: kimi-k2.6.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$1.34

OpenRouter: $0.65 in, $3.41 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.95 in, $4.00 out Context window 262K tokens. LiveBench cost per solved task $0.169.

Nearby

The models either side of Kimi K2.6

  1. #32GPT-5.6 Luna54
  2. #33gemini-2.5-flash54
  3. #34Claude Haiku 4.553
  4. #35Kimi K2.653
  5. #36qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-250752
  6. #37gpt-4.1-2025-04-1452
  7. #38Inkling xHigh51

Questions about Kimi K2.6

How good is Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 ranks #35 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 53 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.
Is Kimi K2.6 better than Claude Haiku 4.5?
Not on the consensus: Claude Haiku 4.5 scores 53 to Kimi K2.6's 53. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Kimi K2.6 better than qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507?
On the consensus, yes: 53 to 52.
How much does Kimi K2.6 cost?
$0.65 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $1.34 per million.
Is Kimi K2.6 good for coding?
It scores 61.8 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #18 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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