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Kimi K2.6 · thinking

The Kimi K2.6 · thinking checkpoint is published by Moonshot AI for language and reasoning. Its weights are available under Modified MIT; that alone does not establish that its code and all components are open source.

When to consider it

Inspect this thinking variant when comparing larger reasoning checkpoints using the same benchmark snapshot.

Check before choosing

The model card lists a vision encoder separately; experimental video support is API-only, not a claimed local feature.

What is documented

Checkpoint / version
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 ↗
Weight license
Modified MIT ↗
Task and modality
language and reasoning · text + image
Count and basis
1000B · manufacturer specification · 32B active
Context
262,144 tokens published for this model
Quality evidence
70.5 · LiveBench 2026-06-25 overall · source ↗
Runtime and precision
No local execution verified. Check the publisher's supported runtime and checkpoint precision; batch and context memory are not measured here.

Run locally: known and unknown

~758 GB generic Q4 planning memory. Formula: parameters × 0.625 bytes, plus 20% working allowance and 8 GB reserve. This is neither measured VRAM nor checkpoint download size.

Q4 planning estimate only. Check checkpoint format, runtime support, KV cache, context, batch size and offload before choosing hardware.

Evidence level: Generic estimate only; no execution reproduced by this site.

Before downloading

  1. Check the exact checkpoint and license linked here.
  2. Confirm a compatible runtime and precision or quantization for your platform.
  3. Allow for context, batch size and any extra media components beyond the weights.

Catalog reviewed: 2026-09-25. Benchmark release: 2026-06-25; snapshot collected: 2026-09-22.