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Kimi K2.6
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RANKED #96 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #127 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 572 VOICES ·
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Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...
HAPPY8.6
70 mentions
SAD6.4
41 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 564 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
FROM THE MODEL CARD
Official published numbers, not a street-price estimate.
- PARAMETERS
- 1T total / 32B active
- CONTEXT
- 256K
- WEIGHTS
- native INT4, ~595 GB
- DEPLOY
- 1 node of 8x H200 (TP8) via vLLM/SGLang; KTransformers for CPU+GPU hybrid
- LICENSE
- Modified MIT
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Kimi K2.6 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
- BARE MINIMUM
Custom PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, 512 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX 3
512 GB SYSTEM RAM + 12 GB VRAM
~$2,200 BUILTExtreme offloading; model is too massive for single consumer GPUs, runs dynamic 2-bit or Q2 via CPU/RAM at very slow spe
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WILL MY BOX RUN KIMI K2.6?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Kimi K2.6 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMCustom PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, 512 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX 3 |
|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | —★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | —★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | —★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | —★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | —★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like Kimi K2.6, with some gripes. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: saying no too much.
483 POSTS · 89 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · GITHUB · REDDIT · X · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (13 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (6 mentions)
- Stable and dependable (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (4 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
13 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM BLOG >
“A more complete community summary from @brianzhan1 claims Neon starts from Kimi K2.6 , lifts success on an internal FrontierXRD eval from 2.7% to 55.3% , and beats Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at lower inference cost.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Kimi K2.6.
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-26 · 1110 UPVOTESDifferences Between Fable 5 and Opus 5 on MineBench.ai
Differences Between Fable 5 and Opus 5 on MineBench.ai
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-04-20 · 710 UPVOTESKimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
- REDDIT · 2026-06-11 · 616 UPVOTESDifferences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
Differences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-04-20 · 576 UPVOTESKimi 2.6 has been released
Kimi 2.6 has been released
- REDDIT · 2026-05-31 · 507 UPVOTESDifferences Between Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 on MineBench
Differences Between Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-04-27 · 406 UPVOTESDifferences Between GPT 5.4 and GPT 5.5 on MineBench
Differences Between GPT 5.4 and GPT 5.5 on MineBench
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-05-03 · 380 UPVOTESKimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
- REDDIT · 2026-09-05 · 314 UPVOTESDifferences Between GPT-5.6 Sol Pro and GPT-6 Astra Pro on MineBench.ai
Differences Between GPT-5.6 Sol Pro and GPT-6 Astra Pro on MineBench.ai
- REDDIT · 2026-07-14 · 281 UPVOTESDifferences Between GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.6 Sol on MineBench
Differences Between GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.6 Sol on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-05-25 · 240 UPVOTESWait, were the old model ACTUALLY better??
Wait, were the old model ACTUALLY better??
- REDDIT · 2026-05-08 · 232 UPVOTESMade the switch to DeepSeek and here are my thoughts as a long time Claude user (spoiler: it's great)
Made the switch to DeepSeek and here are my thoughts as a long time Claude user (spoiler: it's great)
- REDDIT · 2026-05-19 · 224 UPVOTESCerebras is running a trillion parameter model (Kimi K2.6) at 1000 tokens/s
Cerebras is running a trillion parameter model (Kimi K2.6) at 1000 tokens/s