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    MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 (free)

    Released Apr 20, 2026
    moonshotai/kimi-k2.6:free
    text+image→text
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    Ranked in:TextVisionWebDev
    Try it on:
    OOpenRouter

    Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

    Best overall rank
    #8
    Across all subsets · overall
    Total arena votes
    126,645
    Across 41 (subset, category) entries
    Providers on OR
    1
    Crucible
    First seen
    2026-05-28
    6 days tracked

    Trend

    Pricing

    No priced fields.

    Capabilities

    Modality
    text+image->text
    Context
    262K tokens
    Tokenizer
    Other
    Moderation
    Unmoderated
    Hugging Face
    moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
    Supported parameters
    include_reasoning
    reasoning
    tool_choice
    tools

    Providers

    ProviderRegion / TagContextInput/MOutput/MUptime 1dLatencyQuantCache
    Cruciblecrucible262K--99.10%---

    Per-category ranks

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    RankCategoryVariantTrendEloVotes
    #10Chinese
    -
    1527808
    #13Industry Mathematical
    -
    1493838
    #14Japanese
    -
    1455139
    #17Math
    -
    1478887
    #18Expert
    -
    15011,327
    #19Hard Prompts English
    -
    14934,761
    #22Industry Software And It Services
    -
    15026,248
    #22Korean
    -
    1430312
    #22Longer Query
    -
    14756,089
    #23Coding
    -
    15144,237
    #26French
    -
    1483543
    #26Hard Prompts
    -
    148810,015
    #26Instruction Following
    -
    14565,015
    #28Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations
    -
    14593,059
    #28Industry Medicine And Healthcare
    -
    14821,143
    #28Overall
    -
    146215,765
    #29Exclude Ties
    -
    146711,515
    #32English
    -
    14697,117
    #33Industry Life And Physical And Social Science
    -
    14772,634
    #36German
    -
    1449314
    #37Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media
    -
    14292,936
    #37Russian
    -
    14531,765
    #38Industry Writing And Literature And Language
    -
    14373,577
    #40Spanish
    -
    1448569
    #42Creative Writing
    -
    14292,279
    #47Multi Turn
    -
    14572,707
    #51Industry Legal And Government
    -
    14571,124

    Vision

    RankCategoryVariantTrendEloVotes
    #7Chinese
    -
    1341368
    #9Homework
    -
    1312937
    #9Humor
    -
    1267201
    #16Ocr
    -
    12753,983
    #17Diagram
    -
    12961,482
    #17English
    -
    12582,267
    #19Overall
    -
    12595,612
    #21Creative Writing Vision
    -
    1266299
    #23Creative Writing
    -
    1247299

    WebDev

    RankCategoryVariantTrendEloVotes
    #7Image To Webdev
    -
    15221,451
    #8Overall
    -
    15184,008
    #8Webdev
    -
    15184,008
    #8Webdev-react
    -
    15143,475
    #10Webdev-html
    -
    1508532

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