PRICING SNAPSHOT 2026-08-14CLAUDE FABLE 5 $10.00/$50.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 5 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 4.8 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE SONNET 5 $2.00/$10.00 MTOKCLAUDE HAIKU 4.5 $1.00/$5.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.5 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.4 $2.50/$15.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 TERRA $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGPT-5 MINI $0.25/$2.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 LUNA $0.20/$1.20 MTOKGEMINI 3.1 PRO $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.6 FLASH $1.50/$7.50 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI OMNI FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.7 FLASH $0.75/$3.75 MTOKGEMINI 3 FLASH $0.50/$3.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH LITE $0.30/$2.50 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 PRO $0.43/$0.87 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 FLASH $0.14/$0.28 MTOKKIMI K2.6 $0.95/$4.00 MTOK
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THE TICKER · MOONSHOT AI · CHECKED DAILY · LAST CHANGE 2026-08-14

KIMI K2.6 API PRICING

What Moonshot AI charges for Kimi K2.6, in USD, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Effective price — if there's a promo running, this is the promo.

INPUT / 1M TOKENS
$0.950
OUTPUT / 1M TOKENS
$4.00
INPUT / 1K TOKENS
$0.000950
OUTPUT MULTIPLE
4.2x
output vs. input price
CACHED INPUT / 1M
$0.160
83% off list input — repeat prefixes only
CACHE WRITE / 1M
NO CHARGE PUBLISHED
Moonshot AI publishes no separate cache-write rate for this model, so our workload maths bills it at zero.
BATCH / 1M (IN / OUT)
N/A
no published batch tier for this model

WHAT THINGS ACTUALLY COST ON KIMI K2.6

ScenarioTokens in / out1 run1,000 runs
A typical prompt (300 tokens in)300 / ~900$0.0039$3.88
A 20-turn conversation (context re-sent)4,000 / ~4,000$0.02$19.80
Summarizing a 10-page document8,000 / ~3,200$0.02$20.40
One agent run (tools, retries, thinking)2,000 / ~12,000$0.05$49.90
A code review request1,500 / ~3,750$0.02$16.42

Output sizes assume the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator (3x for prompts, 6x for agent runs). Estimates, not invoices.

VS. THE REST OF THE BOARD

ModelInput / MTokOutput / MTokSame job costs
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic →$10.00$50.0012.4x more
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic →$5.00$25.006.2x more
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic →$5.00$25.006.2x more
GPT-5.6 OpenAI →$5.00$30.007.3x more
GPT-5.5 OpenAI →$5.00$30.007.3x more
GPT-5.4 OpenAI →$2.50$15.003.7x more
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic →$2.00$10.002.5x more
GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI →$2.00$12.002.9x more
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google →$2.00$12.002.9x more
Gemini 3.6 Flash Google →$1.50$7.501.9x more
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google →$1.50$9.002.2x more
Gemini Omni Flash Google →$1.50$9.002.2x more
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic →$1.00$5.001.2x more
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google →$0.750$3.751.1x less
Gemini 3 Flash Google →$0.500$3.001.4x less
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek →$0.435$0.8704.3x less
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google →$0.300$2.501.7x less
GPT-5 Mini OpenAI →$0.250$2.002.1x less
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI →$0.200$1.203.4x less
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek →$0.140$0.28013.2x less

“Same job” = a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply, priced on both models. Cheaper is not always better. It is, however, always cheaper.

VS Claude Fable 5VS Claude Opus 5VS Claude Opus 4.8VS GPT-5.6VS GPT-5.5VS GPT-5.4VS Claude Sonnet 5VS GPT-5.6 TerraVS Gemini 3.1 ProVS Gemini 3.6 FlashVS Gemini 3.5 FlashVS Gemini Omni FlashVS Claude Haiku 4.5VS Gemini 3.7 FlashVS Gemini 3 FlashVS DeepSeek V4 ProVS Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteVS GPT-5 MiniVS GPT-5.6 LunaVS DeepSeek V4 Flash

PRICE HISTORY

2026-08-14

Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) joins the board at $0.95 in / $4.00 out per MTok — the first model we added because it showed up in a real invoice, not a radar hit.

Source: platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k26 · price last confirmed against the daily source on 2026-08-14. The full changelog lives at /pricing/changes.

NOW FIND OUT HOW MUCH OF THAT IS WASTE

Kimi K2.6's price is fixed. Your token count isn't. Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Kimi K2.6 — and how much a leaner version would save at 1,000 runs. Or pull the whole board from the ticker.