Compare AI models: Kimi K2.6 vs Grok 4.6

Kimi K2.6MoonshotHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details
Grok 4.6xAIHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
Kimi K2.6	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	78/100	37/100	63/100	50/100	27/100
Grok 4.6	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	39/100	25/100	75/100	33/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

Moonshot

xAI

Context length

262K

500K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text, Image, Video

Text, Image

Output modalities

Text

Providers

Moonshot

xAI

Pricing

Input

$0.60/ 1M

$2.00/ 1M

Output

$3.20/ 1M

$6.00/ 1M

Cached input

$0.17/ 1M

$0.50/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

75K

58K

Completed sessions

242,418

132,956

Token share

0.01%

Tokens

133B-81%

67B+445%

AUG 31OCT 25

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

61.6%3.3K user-weeks

41.3%3.3K user-weeks

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