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Specifications
Parameters
—1T
Context window
100k256k
API pricing
Input price
—$0.95
Output price
—$4.00
Cached input price
—$0.16
Cheapest input
—$0.465Inceptron
Cheapest output
—$2.40DigitalOcean

These models have no shared benchmark scores.

Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateAug 9 2023Apr 21 2026
AccessClosedOpen Weight
Model detailsView modelView model

Frequently asked questions

Claude Instant 1.2 and Kimi K2.6 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Kimi K2.6 has a verified first-party API price: $0.95 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude Instant 1.2. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 986 days before Kimi K2.6, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Context windows are 100k (Claude Instant 1.2) vs 256k (Kimi K2.6). Claude Instant 1.2 is closed, while Kimi K2.6 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Instant 1.2 and Kimi K2.6 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.