Is Kimi K2.6 out yet?
Yes.
About Kimi K2.6
Moonshot's spring 2026 open flagship, near closed-frontier coding quality.
How we confirmed it
Released via official access
April 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
Release timeline
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Benchmarks
Coding#6
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 14, 2026 · source
88.1
Agentic#11
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 14, 2026 · source
80.2
MultimodalGrounded#15
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
67
GDP.pdf
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
12
FrontierCode Diamond
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 24, 2026 · source
3.8
ExploitBench
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
16.3
SWE-Bench Pro#8self-reported
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · via Hugging Face · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
58.6
LM Arena#46
kimi-k2.6 · via LM Arena · 37,613 votes · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
1460.5838917611031
Math#1
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
72
Knowledge#47
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
55
InstructionFollowing#23
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 21, 2026 · source
81.6
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Data from Epoch AI, “AI Benchmarking Hub” (CC BY 4.0).
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