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Kimi K2.6vsLongCat Flash Chat

Kimi K2.6 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Kimi K2.6 has the larger context window (256K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Kimi K2.6 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Kimi K2.6
256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Moonshot AI · Meituan LongCat
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-20
textvision
Context
256K
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
14 · 8 core
LongCat Flash Chat
Meituan LongCat · released 2025-09-01
text
Context
128K
Max out
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
31 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkKimi K2.6LongCat Flash ChatΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
GPQA Diamond90.8% epoch73.23% +17.6 ptKimi K2.6
LMArena Elo1454.9 1422.9 +32Kimi K2.6
Only Kimi K2.6 reports · 12
AIME 202695.8% matharenanot reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)25.6% epochnot reported
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)57.2% epochnot reported
Kimi Claw 24/7 Bench42.9% not reported
Kimi Code Bench v250.9% not reported
MCP-Atlas69.4% not reported
MCPMark-Verified72.8% not reported
MLS-Bench-Lite26.7% not reported
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)96.1% epochnot reported
ProgramBench48.3% not reported
SimpleQA Verified34.9% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)76.7% epochnot reported
Only LongCat Flash Chat reports · 29
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported60.4%
MMLUnot reported89.71%
MMLU-Pronot reported82.68%
AIME 2025not reported61.25%
AceBenchnot reported76.1%
AIME 2024not reported70.42%
ArenaHard-V2not reported86.5%
BeyondAIMEnot reported43%
C-Evalnot reported90.44%
CMMLUnot reported84.34%
COLLIEnot reported57.1%
DROPnot reported79.06%
GraphWalks-128knot reported51.05%
HumanEval+not reported88.41%
IFEvalnot reported89.65%
LiveCodeBenchnot reported48.02%
MATH500not reported96.4%
MBPP+not reported79.63%
Meeseeks-zhnot reported43.03%
Safety: Criminalnot reported91.24%
Safety: Harmfulnot reported83.98%
Safety: Misinformationnot reported81.72%
Safety: Privacynot reported93.98%
Tau2-Bench (airline)not reported58%
Tau2-Bench (retail)not reported71.27%
Tau2-Bench (telecom)not reported73.68%
TerminalBenchnot reported39.51%
VitaBenchnot reported24.3%
ZebraLogicnot reported89.3%
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Kimi K2.6 minus LongCat Flash Chat in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecKimi K2.6LongCat Flash ChatEdge
Context window256K tokens128K tokensKimi K2.6
Max output
Input price / 1M
Output price / 1M
Cached input / 1M
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
Modalitiestext · visiontextKimi K2.6
Released2026-04-202025-09-01
Cited benchmark scores1431
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