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Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.

• Long-Horizon Coding: K2.6 achieves significant improvements on complex, end-to-end coding tasks, generalizing robustly across programming languages (Rust, Go, Python) and domains spanning front-end, DevOps, and performance optimization.
• Coding-Driven Design: K2.6 is capable of transforming simple prompts and visual inputs into production-ready interfaces and lightweight full-stack workflows, generating structured layouts, interactive elements, and rich animations with deliberate aesthetic precision.
• Elevated Agent Swarm: Scaling horizontally to 300 sub-agents executing 4,000 coordinated steps, K2.6 can dynamically decompose tasks into parallel, domain-specialized subtasks, delivering end-to-end outputs from documents to websites to spreadsheets in a single autonomous run.
• Proactive & Open Orchestration: For autonomous tasks, K2.6 demonstrates strong performance in powering persistent, 24/7 background agents that proactively manage schedules, execute code, and orchestrate cross-platform operations without human oversight.

Kimi-K2.6 adopts the same native int4 quantization method as Kimi-K2-Thinking.

• vLLM
• SGLang
• KTransformers

Kimi-K2.6 has the same architecture as Kimi-K2.5, and the deployment method can be directly reused.

The version requirement for transformers is >=4.57.1, <5.0.0.

Deployment examples can be found in the Model Deployment Guide.

The usage demos below demonstrate how to call our official API.

For third-party APIs deployed with vLLM or SGLang, please note that:

This is a simple chat completion script which shows how to call K2.6 API in Thinking and Instant modes.

import openai
import base64
import requests
def simple_chat(client: openai.OpenAI, model_name: str):
    messages = [
        {'role': 'system', 'content': 'You are Kimi, an AI assistant created by Moonshot AI.'},
        {
            'role': 'user',
            'content': [
                {'type': 'text', 'text': 'which one is bigger, 9.11 or 9.9? think carefully.'}
            ],
        },
    ]
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name, messages=messages, stream=False, max_tokens=4096
    )
    print('====== Below is reasoning content in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'reasoning content: {response.choices[0].message.reasoning}')
    print('====== Below is response in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')

    # To use instant mode, pass {"thinking" = {"type":"disabled"}}
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name,
        messages=messages,
        stream=False,
        max_tokens=4096,
        extra_body={'thinking': {'type': 'disabled'}},  # this is for official API
        # extra_body= {'chat_template_kwargs': {"thinking": False}}  # this is for vLLM/SGLang
    )
    print('====== Below is response in Instant Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')

K2.6 supports Image and Video input.

The following example demonstrates how to call K2.6 API with image input:

import openai
import base64
import requests

def chat_with_image(client: openai.OpenAI, model_name: str):
    url = 'https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/resolve/main/figures/kimi-logo.png'
    image_base64 = base64.b64encode(requests.get(url).content).decode()
    messages = [
        {
            'role': 'user',
            'content': [
                {'type': 'text', 'text': 'Describe this image in detail.'},
                {
                    'type': 'image_url',
                    'image_url': {'url': f'data:image/png;base64, {image_base64}'},
                },
            ],
        }
    ]

    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name, messages=messages, stream=False, max_tokens=8192
    )
    print('====== Below is reasoning content in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'reasoning content: {response.choices[0].message.reasoning}')
    print('====== Below is response in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')

    # Also support instant mode if you pass {"thinking" = {"type":"disabled"}}
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name,
        messages=messages,
        stream=False,
        max_tokens=4096,
        extra_body={'thinking': {'type': 'disabled'}},  # this is for official API
        # extra_body= {'chat_template_kwargs': {"thinking": False}}  # this is for vLLM/SGLang
    )
    print('====== Below is response in Instant Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')

    return response.choices[0].message.content

The following example demonstrates how to call K2.6 API with video input:

import openai
import base64
import requests

def chat_with_video(client: openai.OpenAI, model_name:str):
    url = 'https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/resolve/main/figures/demo_video.mp4'
    video_base64 = base64.b64encode(requests.get(url).content).decode()
    messages = [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {"type": "text","text": "Describe the video in detail."},
                {
                    "type": "video_url",
                    "video_url": {"url": f"data:video/mp4;base64,{video_base64}"},
                },
            ],
        }
    ]

    response = client.chat.completions.create(model=model_name, messages=messages)
    print('====== Below is reasoning content in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'reasoning content: {response.choices[0].message.reasoning}')
    print('====== Below is response in Thinking Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')

    # Also support instant mode if pass {"thinking" = {"type":"disabled"}}
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name,
        messages=messages,
        stream=False,
        max_tokens=4096,
        extra_body={'thinking': {'type': 'disabled'}},  # this is for official API
        # extra_body= {'chat_template_kwargs': {"thinking": False}}  # this is for vLLM/SGLang
    )
    print('====== Below is response in Instant Mode ======')
    print(f'response: {response.choices[0].message.content}')
    return response.choices[0].message.content

Kimi K2.6 supports preserve_thinking mode, which retains full reasoning content across multi-turn interactions and enhances performance in coding agent scenarios.

This feature is disabled by default. The following example demonstrates how to call K2.6 API in preserve_thinking mode:

def chat_with_preserve_thinking(client: openai.OpenAI, model_name: str):
    messages = [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Tell me three random numbers."
        },
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "reasoning_content": "I'll start by listing five numbers: 473, 921, 235, 215, 222, and I'll tell you the first three.",
            "content": "473, 921, 235"
        },
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "What are the other two numbers you have in mind?"
        }
    ]

    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_name,
        messages=messages,
        stream=False,
        max_tokens=4096,
        extra_body={'thinking': {'type': 'enabled', 'keep': 'all'}},  # this is for official API
        # extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"thinking":True, "preserve_thinking": True}},  # this is for vLLM/SGLang
        # We recommend enabling preserve_thinking only in think mode.
    )
    # the assistant should mention 215 and 222 that appear in the prior reasoning content
    print(f"response: {response.choices[0].message.reasoning}")
    return response.choices[0].message.content

K2.6 shares the same design of Interleaved Thinking and Multi-Step Tool Call as K2 Thinking. For usage example, please refer to the K2 Thinking documentation.

Kimi K2.6 works best with Kimi Code CLI as its agent framework — give it a try at https://www.kimi.com/code.

Both the code repository and the model weights are released under the Modified MIT License.

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If you have any questions, please reach out at support@moonshot.ai.