Kimi K2.6
by Moonshot AI
Agent Swarm 2.0 scaling (April 2026). 300 parallel sub-agents, 4,000 coordinated steps. Ranked #1 open-weight model by Artificial Analysis (April 2026). 58.6% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0.
Release
- Date: April 2026
- Parameters: 1T total / 32B active
- Context: 256K tokens
Agent Swarm 2.0
- Sub-agents: 300 parallel (vs K2.5’s 100)
- Coordinated steps: 4,000 (vs K2.5’s 1,500)
- Speedup: 4.5× faster execution vs single-agent on large-scale search
- Critical path reduction: 3-4.5× fewer steps needed
Benchmarks
- Artificial Analysis (April 2026): #1 ranked open-weight model
- SWE-Bench Pro: 58.6%
- Terminal-Bench 2.0: 66.7%
- Independent validation: Industry-leading for open-source
Pricing
- Input: $0.60 per million tokens
- Output: $2.50 per million tokens
- Cost advantage: 7-10× cheaper than K3
Capabilities
- Production-grade agentic workflows
- Parallel research and reasoning
- Multimodal (native vision)
- Open-source deployment
Positioning
- Production model for teams prioritizing cost + agentic performance
- Stepping stone to K3’s frontier capabilities
- Open-weight advantage vs proprietary competitors