Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is an open-weight language model from Moonshot AI, released on April 21, 2026.

Developer: Moonshot AI
Released: April 21, 2026
Total parameters: 1T
Active parameters per token: 32B
Architecture: MoE
Context window: 256K
Input: Text, image
License: Modified MIT License
Commercial use: Yes, with conditions
Hugging Face repository: huggingface.co
Checked on: September 29, 2026

Kimi K2.6 is a mixture-of-experts model with 1T total parameters, of which 32B are active for each token. Moonshot AI lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model accepts text and image input. The weights are released under the Modified MIT License. Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Commercial products with more than 100 million monthly active users or more than US$20 million in monthly revenue must display “Kimi K2.6” in their interface.

Total parameters, billions: 1,000B
Active parameters, billions: 32B
Context window, tokens: 256K
License type: Modified MIT
License conditions: Commercial products with more than 100 million monthly active users or more than US$20 million in monthly revenue must display "Kimi K2.6" in their interface.
License text: huggingface.co
Sources: Page URL
Hugging Face model card https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/raw/main/README.md
License text on Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/raw/main/LICENSE
forum.moonshot.ai https://forum.moonshot.ai/t/meet-kimi-k2-6-advancing-open-source-coding/369

Page	URL
Hugging Face model card	https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/raw/main/README.md
License text on Hugging Face	https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6/raw/main/LICENSE
forum.moonshot.ai	https://forum.moonshot.ai/t/meet-kimi-k2-6-advancing-open-source-coding/369

Questions

What license does Kimi K2.6 use?

The weights are released under the Modified MIT License.

Can I use Kimi K2.6 commercially?

Yes, with conditions. Commercial products with more than 100 million monthly active users or more than US$20 million in monthly revenue must display “Kimi K2.6” in their interface.

How much memory does Kimi K2.6 need?

Kimi K2.6 has 1T total parameters, and all of them must be loaded. As a rough guide, a model takes about 2 GB per billion parameters in BF16, 1 GB in 8-bit and a little over 0.5 GB in 4-bit, before the context cache; the memory calculator checks which setups fit.

How many parameters does Kimi K2.6 have?

1T in total, of which 32B are active for each token, with a context window of 256K tokens.

Sources

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