Kimi K2.6 API: toman pricing and code
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
visiontoolsreasoningjsonYou are billed for the usage the request actually reported. Prices follow the market. Cached input: 46,420 toman / 1M.Pricing and top-ups
Kimi K2.6 example: reading an image into JSON
The example is picked from this model's own capabilities. Drop in your key and it runs as is.
# tip: a data URI works too — base64 the file and prefix it with data:image/jpeg;base64,
curl https://api.uttapen.ir/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-up-…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
"messages": [{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Return only the invoice number and the total, as JSON."},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/factor.jpg"}}
]
}]
}'import base64, json
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", api_key="sk-up-…")
img = base64.b64encode(open("factor.jpg", "rb").read()).decode()
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON."},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": f"data:image/jpeg;base64,{img}"}},
],
}],
response_format={"type": "json_object"},
)
print(json.loads(resp.choices[0].message.content))import OpenAI from "openai";
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://api.uttapen.ir/v1", apiKey: "sk-up-…" });
const img = readFileSync("factor.jpg").toString("base64");
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6",
messages: [{
role: "user",
content: [
{ type: "text", text: "Return the invoice number, the date and the total as JSON." },
{ type: "image_url", image_url: { url: `data:image/jpeg;base64,${img}` } },
],
}],
response_format: { type: "json_object" },
});
console.log(JSON.parse(resp.choices[0].message.content));What is Kimi K2.6 good for?
Kimi K2.6 is one of Moonshot (Kimi)'s models. Put "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6" in the model field and the rest of your code stays as it is. Kimi K2.6 keeps 262,144 tokens in view at once, and that number is what caps the conversation history in your product. A single response can run to 235,929 tokens. On price it sits in the "mid-range" band — cheaper than 265 and dearer than 141 of the other paid models in the catalogue.
What you get on top of text in, text out: it reads images directly, which makes it a real option for invoices, forms and screenshots; it supports tool calling, so it can invoke your own functions with valid arguments; it returns schema-valid JSON through response_format, ready to hand to your code; it has a reasoning mode that pays off on multi-step problems, maths and debugging. All of it works through the standard parameters of the official OpenAI SDK — no custom client, no wrapper. Keep in mind that reasoning tokens are output tokens and do appear on the bill.
Input runs at 275,619 toman per 1M tokens and output at 1,160,500 — output costs 4.2× input, so trimming the answer saves more than trimming the prompt. It supports cached input: repeated context is billed at 46,420 toman per 1M, which matters a lot if your system prompt is long. You are always charged for the usage the request actually reported, never for the estimate, and a failed request costs nothing.
The closest alternative with the same capabilities from a different provider is GPT-4.1 (batch): Kimi K2.6 works out roughly 1× cheaper, and its context window is smaller. Both run on the same key and the same code, so trying the other one is a single string change.
To make the figure concrete: 100,000 toman of credit buys roughly 54 thousand-word requests on Kimi K2.6, and every 1,000 toman is about 536 words of round trip. A job with one million input tokens and one million output tokens comes to 1,436,119 toman in total. Filling this model's 262,144-token window costs 72,252 toman on the input side alone, which is the real reason to keep conversation history short.
Its nearest relative in the catalogue is "moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code", and choosing between those two is where most people hesitate. On a thousand-word request this variant works out 1.2× dearer (1,867 against 1,531 toman).
Moonshot (Kimi) has 9 models in our catalogue; the cheapest is Kimi K2.5 at 1,018 toman per thousand words and the dearest Kimi K3 (batch) at 6,789. Among the less common parameters it accepts logit_bias, logprobs, min_p, parallel_tool_calls, repetition_penalty, top_k — all through the standard request body. By context size the nearest option from another provider is Trinity Large Thinking at 262,144 tokens.
Where it makes sense: product chatbots and internal assistants, where cost and quality have to balance, logic puzzles and code review, pulling text and fields out of images, agents that reach out to APIs and databases, extracting data against a fixed schema, analysing a long document or codebase in one request.
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...
Three real jobs, priced on this model
Each figure is derived from the prices above and moves when they do.
| Job | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One chat turn with a medium history | 1,500 in + 400 out | 878 toman |
| Summarising a ten-page document | 4,000 in + 600 out | 1,799 toman |
| Classifying a thousand short rows | 120,000 in + 20,000 out | 56,284 toman |
Frequently asked
- How do I call Kimi K2.6 from Iran?
- Sign up with your mobile number, top the wallet up in toman, create an API key, then in the official OpenAI SDK point base_url at https://api.uttapen.ir/v1 and set model to "moonshotai/kimi-k2.6". Nothing else in your code changes.
- What does Kimi K2.6 cost in toman?
- 275,619 toman per 1M input tokens and 1,160,500 toman per 1M output tokens; a 1,000-word request is around 1,867 toman. You pay for the usage that request actually reported, and a failed request costs nothing.
- How much input does Kimi K2.6 take?
- Up to 262,144 tokens per request, roughly 197k words. A single answer can reach 235,929 tokens.
- Does Kimi K2.6 support streaming and tool calling?
- Streaming (stream=true) works on every model here. This one supports tool calling in the standard OpenAI shape. Image input is accepted through image_url, as a data URI or a public URL. Structured output through response_format works too.