I Tested Kimi K2.6 — 5x Cheaper, Better at UI, Agent Swarm
Moonshot have just released Kimi K2.6 — an open-source model that stacks up against Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro across most of the benchmarks that matter. At a fraction of the price. I’ve been testing it for a while and this is my honest take.
In this video I break down what K2.6 actually does well, where the closed frontier still has the edge, and whether it should change your default choice for AI-powered development work.
🔗 Useful links:
Kimi K2.6 official tech blog: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
Try Kimi: https://www.kimi.com
Kimi Code: https://www.kimi.com/code
Kimi on Hugging Face (open weights): https://huggingface.co/moonshotai
💼 This video is sponsored by Moonshot AI. They gave me early access to K2.6 and asked for my honest take. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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