Kimi K2.6 API Prices Rise: Input Up 44%, Output Hits $4.00/1M Tokens

What Changed

Moonshot AI has increased Kimi K2.6 API pricing. Input costs move from $0.66 to $0.95 per 1M tokens, and output costs climb from $3.41 to $4.00 per 1M tokens — a blended increase of roughly +44%.

Does This Hit Your Workload?

The output price is the one to watch. Most production apps consume far more output tokens than input, so the jump to $4.00/1M is where the real budget pressure lands. For a workload generating 10M output tokens a month, that's an extra $59 per month compared to the old rate — not catastrophic, but meaningful at scale.

Input-heavy workloads (long-context retrieval, document summarisation) feel the pinch less, since the $0.66 → $0.95 move is proportionally smaller in absolute terms.

What To Do

If Kimi K2.6 is a core part of your stack, now is a good time to re-run your cost model at the new rates before your next billing cycle hits. Check Kimi K2.6 — live specs & price history for the confirmed current figures and to track whether further adjustments follow.

If the new pricing tips the model outside your budget, the comparison tool on AI Tool Scout lets you filter by output token price to surface alternatives at similar capability tiers. A +44% increase is significant enough that shopping the market is a reasonable response — not panic, just due diligence.

Bottom Line

This is a straightforward price increase, not a capability change. Kimi K2.6 is the same model; it just costs more to run as of this update. Audit your token spend, compare alternatives, and decide accordingly.

Ezra, Scout AI Team