Kimi K2.6
Context 256K tokens
Top 5 cheapest providers (Adjusted $/task)
The same list price can give a different adjusted $/task (caching, token efficiency) — click a price for its inputs.
Within the active global provider, residency and confidentiality filters.
| # | Provider | Platform | Raw input $/1M | Raw output $/1M | Adjusted $/task |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inceptron | Inceptron | $0.375 | $2.10 | |
| 2 | Inceptron | OpenRouter | $0.375 | $2.10 | |
| 3 | Chutes | Chutes | $0.500 | $2.85 | |
| 4 | Chutes | OpenRouter | $0.500 | $2.85 | |
| 5 | Decart | OpenRouter | $0.587 | $2.47 |
Composite
6 of 7 inputs · 3 from the model family6 radar axes: DesignArena's two boards share one57.5
includes −9.4 for its Benchmaxxing signal (from 67.0; why, switch off in Options)
Benchmaxxing signal +9.4, medium Benchmaxxing tag · medium report →
AA Coding 61.8Coding Agent v1.4 33.9AA Intelligence 27.5AA Agentic 22.1Epoch ECI 151.0Software ECI 149.9DesignArena —/1165
Radar: percentile among all models measured on each input; a gap means not measured.
Benchmark sheet
29 of 140 registered benchmark versions · bars show the percentile among all models measured on each benchmark.
- Epoch ECI · attached
- Software ECI · attached
- DesignArena Full-Stack · attached
Agentic
APEX-Agents-AA6628.5%
APEX-Agents-AA published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests professional-service tasks that require agents to produce locally graded deliverables.
AA-Briefcase39820 Elo
AA-Briefcase published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests multi-week professional knowledge-work projects with linked tasks and large source collections.
GDPval-AA v2581,115 Elo
GDPval-AA v2 v2 ↗ · Published board — Tests professional knowledge-work deliverables across occupations using AA's Stirrup harness.
Harvey LAB-AA4384.1%
Harvey LAB-AA published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests legal-work deliverables across practice areas on Harvey's private task set. Artificial Analysis' run, graded by one LLM judge against task rubrics — not the same run or scale as Vals AI's HLAB row.
ITBench-AA4131.2%
ITBench-AA published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests root-cause diagnosis from offline Kubernetes incident snapshots.
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA)9143.9%
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) pinned revision 74221fb ↗ · Published board — Tests a pinned 44-task hard subset of terminal-based work using Terminus 2.
Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA)6665.9%
Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA) v2.1 ↗ · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 89-task verified refresh using Terminus 2.
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run)6773.7%
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) published 2026-09-15 ↗ · Published board — Multi-turn service agents making tool calls under strict policy constraints. (OpenRouter's own reproducible run, as published on openrouter.ai/benchmarks.)
AA Agentic Index5822.1
AA Agentic Index published 2026-09-18 ↗ · Published board — Artificial Analysis publishes one Agentic Index per model, measured on its primary configuration and relayed by OpenRouter's Benchmarks API; the value is attached at family scope on the deterministic representative. Artificial Analysis publishes this board without a version number; we keep the date each result was retained.
Coding
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.4433.9%
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.4 v1.4 ↗ · Claude Code — The retained AA Coding Agent Index measures coding-agent systems using the earlier three-component implementation.
SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.16551.5%
SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.1 ↗ · Published board — Tests scientific Python programming with scientist-annotated background information.
AA Coding Index7261.8
AA Coding Index published 2026-09-19 ↗ · Published board — Artificial Analysis publishes this board without a version number; we keep the date each result was retained.
DesignArena Full-Stack391,165 Elo
DesignArena Full-Stack published 2026-09-19 ↗ · Published board — Published Elo. Exact source attachment is retained; fewer than 200 battles excludes a row from radar normalization and anomaly peers.
Efficiency
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task22$0.11
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task published 2026-09-15 ↗ · Published board — Mean USD OpenRouter actually spent per task while running GPQA Diamond for this configuration.
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task45$0.061
τ²-Bench Airline (OpenRouter run) — measured cost per task published 2026-09-15 ↗ · Published board — Mean USD OpenRouter actually spent per task while running τ²-Bench Airline for this configuration.
Instruction-following
IFBench (AA single-turn)9576.0%
IFBench (AA single-turn) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests precise single-turn instructions with deterministic rule checks.
Knowledge
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only)8837.5%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests expert-level knowledge on AA's text-only Humanity's Last Exam subset.
AA-Omniscience Index875.30
AA-Omniscience Index published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests factual reliability while rewarding correct answers and penalizing hallucinations.
Long-context
GDP.pdf (AA)5913.0%
GDP.pdf (AA) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests professional reasoning over long PDFs with AA document preparation and grading.
AA-LCR v1.19381.0%
AA-LCR v1.1 v1.1 ↗ · Published board — Tests reasoning across multiple long documents with corrected answer keys and grading.
Reasoning
AA Intelligence Index8427.5
AA Intelligence Index published 2026-09-19 ↗ · Published board — Artificial Analysis publishes this board without a version number; we keep the date each result was retained.
Roleplay
Japanese-RP-Bench v2 (tegnike fork)10095.1
Japanese-RP-Bench v2 (tegnike fork) v2 ↗ · Published board — Fork of Japanese-RP-Bench adding v2 metrics for role fidelity, conversation quality, persona stability, robustness, and recovery in Japanese roleplay.
Science
CritPt (AA)838.0%
CritPt (AA) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests research-level physics reasoning with Python, symbolic and numerical answers.
GPQA Diamond (AA)9291.1%
GPQA Diamond (AA) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry knowledge on the Diamond subset.
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run)6083.3%
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) published 2026-09-15 ↗ · Published board — Graduate-level science questions that resist retrieval and reward careful reasoning. (OpenRouter's own reproducible run, as published on openrouter.ai/benchmarks.)
Tool-use
AutomationBench-AA v1.0.64113.0%
AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6 ↗ · Published board — Tests multi-app SaaS workflows through REST tools on a held-out AutomationBench split.
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA4038.5%
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests enterprise workflows through MCP tools against resettable application environments.
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)9695.9%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests dual-control telecom agents that coordinate tool use with a simulated user.
τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.15823.3%
τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1 ↗ · Published board — Tests banking support agents that retrieve policies and change account state through tools.
Vision
MMMU Pro (AA)8479.4%
MMMU Pro (AA) published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Tests multimodal understanding using challenging ten-option questions.
Writing
LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark860.30
LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Pairwise comparison of short stories written to the same constrained creative briefs, with LLM evaluator choices combined into a relative comparison score.
The Slop Index7221.1
The Slop Index published 2026-09-10 ↗ · Published board — Leaderboard scoring how much each model's writing reads like chatbot slop versus pre-AI human writing, blending live arena votes with four mechanical axes.
Unusual results
1 threshold-crossing signal flagged · 29 eligible benchmark families
How flags are calculated
Heuristic screen, not statistical significance: benchmark families are correlated and source uncertainty is unknown. Peer evidence needs ≥ 20 independently measured matched configurations from ≥ 10 distinct model families. A flag needs a directed population z-score of magnitude ≥ 1.5 and a gap of ≥ 1.5 from the leave-one-benchmark-family-out mean z in the same direction, over ≥ 5 other benchmark families.
- unusually weak Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.4
Why
Observed: 0.33889 fractionPeer mean 0.55251 · peer sd 0.11622 · n 26 · families 12Directed z -1.838 · baseline z 0.563 · gap -2.401 · profile n 280.33889 fractionmeasuredobserved 2026-09-09artificialanalysis.ai ↗Evidence
Axis: Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.4 · v1.4 · Claude CodeExact value:0.3388925953605663fractionEvaluation harness: Claude CodeObserved: 2026-09-09 · publication date: not recordedObservation id:aa-coding:1.4:48Source: https://artificialanalysis.ai/
Missing coverage · 113 benchmark versions
No result does not mean a zero, or that the model was never tested. Collection failures and disputed versions retain their distinct status.
Variants / reasoning settings
Artificial Analysis snapshot 2026-09-19 · Data: Artificial Analysis · Data: Epoch AI (CC BY)
| Variant | AA Coding | AA Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2.6 | 61.8 | 27.5 |
| Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) | — | 23.6 |
Token offers by platform · 20 offers (Adjusted $/task)
Click any underlined price to see how it is estimated and where each input comes from. How we calculate adjusted cost.
20 offers within the active global filters; “—” means the catalog is active but no public token price is available.
Inceptron (1)
| Inceptron | euEU | $0.375 raw in $/1M | $2.10 raw out $/1M |
OpenRouter (15)
| Inceptron | globalinceptron/int4EU | $0.375 raw in $/1M | $2.10 raw out $/1M | |
| Chutes | globalchutes/int4 | $0.500 raw in $/1M | $2.85 raw out $/1M | |
| DigitalOcean | globaldigitalocean | $0.570 raw in $/1M | $2.40 raw out $/1M | |
| CoreWeave | globalcoreweave/fp4 | $0.650 raw in $/1M | $3.41 raw out $/1M | |
| SiliconFlow | globalsiliconflow/fp8 | $0.770 raw in $/1M | $3.40 raw out $/1M | |
| DeepInfra | globaldeepinfra/fp4 | $0.750 raw in $/1M | $3.50 raw out $/1M | |
| Parasail | globalparasail/int4 | $0.750 raw in $/1M | $3.50 raw out $/1M | |
| Novita | globalnovita | $0.800 raw in $/1M | $3.40 raw out $/1M | |
| Moonshot AI | globalmoonshotai/int4 | $0.950 raw in $/1M | $4.00 raw out $/1M | |
| BaseTen | globalbaseten/fp4 | $0.950 raw in $/1M | $4.00 raw out $/1M | |
| Fireworks | globalfireworks | $0.950 raw in $/1M | $4.00 raw out $/1M | |
| Phala | globalphalaTEE | $1.09 raw in $/1M | $4.60 raw out $/1M | |
| Decart | globaldecart/fp4 | $0.587 raw in $/1M | $2.47 raw out $/1M | |
| Venice | globalvenice/int4 | $0.750 raw in $/1M | $3.50 raw out $/1M | |
| Crusoe | globalcrusoe/bf16 | $0.700 raw in $/1M | $3.50 raw out $/1M |
Chutes (1)
| Chutes | globalTEE | $0.500 raw in $/1M | $2.85 raw out $/1M |
Azure AI Foundry (2)
| Azure AI Foundry | globalazure direct | $0.950 raw in $/1M | $4.00 raw out $/1M | |
| Azure AI Foundry | usfireworks | $1.04 raw in $/1M | $4.40 raw out $/1M |
Nebius (1)
| Nebius | us | $0.950 raw in $/1M | $4.00 raw out $/1M |