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Kimi K2.6vsMAI-Thinking-1
Kimi K2.6 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 256K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Kimi K2.6 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Moonshot AI · Microsoft
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-20
textvision
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- —
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 14 · 8 core
MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft · released 2026-08-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- 64K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 15 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 11 only Kimi K2.6 · 12 only MAI-Thinking-1| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.8% ↗epoch | 84.2% ↗ | +6.6 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| AIME 2026 | 95.8% ↗matharena ⚠ | 94.5% ↗ | +1.3 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% ↗epoch | 31% ↗ | +3.9 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| Only Kimi K2.6 reports · 11 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1454.9 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 25.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 57.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Kimi Claw 24/7 Bench | 42.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | 50.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP-Atlas | 69.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCPMark-Verified | 72.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MLS-Bench-Lite | 26.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 96.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| ProgramBench | 48.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 76.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only MAI-Thinking-1 reports · 12 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 73.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 97% ↗ | — | — |
| AdvancedIF | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL v3 | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
| GraphWalks (<=128K) | not reported | 90% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT February 2026 | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 87.7% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 53% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | not reported | 52.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 46% ↗ | — | — |
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 MAI-Thinking-1 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Kimi K2.6 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 256K tokens | Tie |
| Max output | — | 64K tokens | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Kimi K2.6 |
| Released | 2026-04-20 | 2026-08-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 14 | 15 | — |
Reliability
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