Kimi K2.6
Hugging Face (moonshotai) Open weights
The catch: 1T parameters needs a full 8-GPU H200 node, and the card says video chat works only on Moonshot's official API, not on vLLM/SGLang deployments.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. ~1 T total / 32 B active (MoE, plus 400M MoonViT vision encoder), needs multi-GPU: the deploy guide's vLLM example uses one 8×H200 node (TP8). Licence condition: products over 100M MAU or US$20M monthly revenue must display 'Kimi K2.6' in the UI. |
| Modality | text, code, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Modified MIT |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens |
| Model id | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Kimi K2.6
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Modified MIT.
Quickstart
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 -tp 8 --mm-encoder-tp-mode data --trust-remote-code --tool-call-parser kimi_k2 --reasoning-parser kimi_k2
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Kimi K2.6" (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- 1T parameters needs a full 8-GPU H200 node, and the card says video chat works only on Moonshot's official API, not on vLLM/SGLang deployments.
- Modified MIT License (LICENSE in the HF repo): standard MIT plus one modification: if the Software or derivatives are used in commercial products or services with >100 million monthly active users or >US$20 million…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Kimi K2.6 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Modified MIT. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Kimi K2.6 commercially?
Yes, under Modified MIT. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Kimi K2.6?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Modified MIT.
Source: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6, checked 2 Oct 2026.