Kimi K2.6 (StreamLake) API

StreamLake · serves kimi-k2.6

Pricing

Input / 1M	$0.60
Output / 1M	$2.52
Blended / 1M	$3.119cheapest of 17
Cached input / 1M	$0.10
Context window	262,144 tokens
Max output	16,384 tokens
License	Open weights · Modified MIT conditional
Knowledge cutoff	≈ April 2026 · third-party estimate, its maker publishes none
Intelligence index	45.1 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · source

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Price verified 2026-09-08 (0 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

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Sources

Source	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Verified
OpenRouter	$0.60	$2.52	2026-09-08
LiteLLM	$0.65	$3.41	2026-09-07
models.dev	$0.50	$2.60	2026-09-07
Together	$1.20	$4.50	2026-09-07

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

Call it

Served via OpenRouter, pinned to StreamLake — 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": ["StreamLake"], "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": ["StreamLake"], "allow_fallbacks": false}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price unchanged since 2026-09-08 — 1 point on record.

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