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Kimi K2.6vsStep 3.5 Flash
Kimi K2.6 and Step 3.5 Flash split their 2 shared benchmarks evenly. Both offer a 256K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 1
even split
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 256K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Moonshot AI · StepFun
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-20
textvision
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 14 · 8 core
Step 3.5 Flash
StepFun · released 2026-02-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- —
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 18 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 12 only Kimi K2.6 · 15 only Step 3.5 Flash| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Step 3.5 Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | 95.8% ↗matharena ⚠ | 96.7% ↗matharena | -0.9 pt | Step 3.5 Flash |
| LMArena Elo | 1454.9 ↗ | 1403.7 ↗ | +51.2 | Kimi K2.6 |
| Only Kimi K2.6 reports · 12 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.8% ↗epoch | 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 | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 76.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Step 3.5 Flash reports · 15 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 74.4% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 97.3% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 51.6% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (with context manager) | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-ZH | not reported | 66.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-ZH (with context manager) | not reported | 73.7% ↗ | — | — |
| GAIA (no file) | not reported | 84.5% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (Feb/Nov average) | not reported | 96.2% ↗ | — | — |
| IMOAnswerBench | not reported | 85.4% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 86.4% ↗ | — | — |
| ResearchRubrics | not reported | 65.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench | not reported | 88.2% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not reported | 51% ↗ | — | — |
| xbench-DeepSearch 2025.05 | not reported | 83.7% ↗ | — | — |
| xbench-DeepSearch 2025.10 | not reported | 56.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 Step 3.5 Flash 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 | Step 3.5 Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 256K tokens | Tie |
| 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. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Kimi K2.6 |
| Released | 2026-04-20 | 2026-02-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 14 | 18 | — |
Reliability
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