Kimi K2.6 (Baidu) API

Baidu · serves kimi-k2.6

Pricing

Input / 1M$0.55
Output / 1M$2.31
Blended / 1M$2.856cheapest of 17
Cached input / 1M$0.09
Context window262,144 tokens
Max output235,929 tokens
LicenseOpen weights · Modified MIT conditional
Knowledge cutoffApril 2026 · source
Intelligence index45.1 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · source

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Price verified 2026-09-05 (0 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

Sources

SourceInput / 1MOutput / 1MVerified
OpenRouter$0.55$2.312026-09-05
LiteLLM$0.65$3.412026-09-03
models.dev$0.50$2.602026-09-04

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

Call it

Served via OpenRouter, pinned to Baidu — the provider these prices are resolved from. Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Provider page.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "provider": {"only": ["Baidu"], "allow_fallbacks": false}
  }'
from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="...",  # OPENROUTER_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    extra_body={"provider": {"only": ["Baidu"], "allow_fallbacks": false}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price history

DateInput / 1MOutput / 1M
2026-09-05$0.55$2.31
2026-09-03$0.52$2.18

2 price points on record · a new point is added only when the price actually changes.

Use this data

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