Kimi K2.6 is a Moonshot multimodal reasoning model with 256K context, strong coding, and text, image, and video inputs.
Moonshot AIText Generation256K contextChinaProprietary EndpointNewKimi K2.6 is a Moonshot multimodal reasoning model with 256K context, strong coding, and text, image, and video inputs.
Supports text, image, and video inputs, thinking mode on by default, function calling, and automatic prompt caching. Web search, structured output, batches, and fine-tuning are not supported.
kimi-k2-6POST /v1/chat/completionsPOST /v1/responsesPOST /v1/messagesLive pay-as-you-go rates from the EmpirioLabs catalog. You are billed only for what you use, with no monthly minimum.
Kimi K2.6 serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 with your EmpirioLabs API key and use the model id kimi-k2-6. Get an API key from the EmpirioLabs dashboard.
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "kimi-k2-6",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}
]
}'from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="kimi-k2-6",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about the ocean."}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Request parameters supported by the Kimi K2.6 API on EmpirioLabs. Defaults apply when a field is omitted.
| Parameter | Type | Default | Range / values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| temperature | number | 0.7 | 0 to 2 | Sampling temperature. 0 = deterministic, 2 = maximum randomness. |
| top_p | number | 0.9 | 0 to 1 | Nucleus sampling probability mass. Lower values make outputs more focused. |
| max_tokens | number | 4096 | 1 to 16000 | Maximum output tokens. |
| stop | string | - | - | Up to 4 strings where the model will stop generating further tokens. |
| enable_thinking | boolean | true | - | Enable reasoning before answering. |
| thinking_budget | number | 32768 | 1 to 81920 | Maximum tokens reserved for reasoning when thinking is enabled. |
| reasoning_effort | enum | medium | none, low, medium, high, max | Reasoning effort level. none disables thinking. low, medium, high, and max set bounded thinking budgets sized to the selected model. Sent as an OpenAI-style... |
| web_search_linkup | boolean | false | - | Optional web search powered by Linkup. When enabled, recent web sources are retrieved using your latest user message as the query and provided to the model as... |
| disable_formatting | boolean | false | - | When enabled, the gateway will not append the "Sources" footer to assistant responses that used Linkup web search. Useful when the model output is piped to another... |
On EmpirioLabs, Kimi K2.6 is billed pay as you go: Input $0.8939 (was $0.95) per 1M prompt tokens; Output $3.7131 (was $4.00) per 1M generated tokens; Implicit cache read $0.1788 per 1M cached input tokens. The live rate card on this page always matches what the API charges.
Kimi K2.6 supports a 256K-token context window with up to 16,000 output tokens per response.
Yes. Kimi K2.6 serves the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, so existing OpenAI SDKs work by pointing base_url at https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1 and setting the model id to kimi-k2-6.
Yes. The EmpirioLabs playground runs Kimi K2.6 in the browser with the same parameters the API exposes, so you can test prompts before writing code.
Create an EmpirioLabs account, then generate a key under API Keys in the dashboard. Billing is pay-as-you-go credits, so you only pay for the requests you make.
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