Kimi K2.6 Released by Moonshot AI — Deeper Reasoning, Stronger Agent Planning, $0.60/M Input Tokens

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Moonshot AI rolled out Kimi K2.6 to all subscribers on April 13 after a one-week closed beta. Beta testers report deeper reasoning traces, cleaner multi-step agent plans, and more reliable tool call execution vs. K2.5. API pricing is $0.60/M input and $2.50/M output tokens. The coding-specialized K2.6-code-preview targets multi-file refactors and agentic task decomposition. Official benchmarks haven't been published yet, but K2.5 baseline scored 76.8% SWE-Bench Verified and 85% LiveCodeBench.