Is Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) Down?

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Last editorial review: 2026-05-13

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WATCHLIST (verified 2026-05-13, Day 4 of ship window): Kimi K3 has NOT shipped. moonshotai HuggingFace org shows K2.6 as the latest model (last update 2 days ago); no Kimi-K3 repository exists. kimi.com/blog latest post remains 'Kimi K2.6 -- Advancing Open-Source Coding' (2026-04-20). Manifold market priced ~74% probability of K3 ship before end of May 2026; today is Day 4 of that window with no observable on-platform signal. If K3 lands before 2026-05-31 it likely beats Manifold's implied timeline; if it slips past 5/31 the market resolves NO. Watch: kimi.com/blog, huggingface.co/moonshotai, GitHub MoonshotAI/Kimi-K* releases.
2026-05-13•kimi.com/blog (no new post since K2.6), huggingface.co/moonshotai (no K3 repo)
Kimi K2.6 (GA 2026-04-20) supersedes K2.5 -- 1T total / 32B active MoE, 256K context, adds native video input (mp4/mov/avi/webm). Scores 54 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0, ranked #1 open-weights and #4 overall (three points behind Claude Opus 4.7 / Gemini 3.1 Pro / OpenAI flagships at 57). SWE-Bench Pro 58.6%. Modified MIT license unchanged. Moonshot direct API: $0.60 in / $2.50 out per 1M tokens. OpenRouter blended: ~$0.95 in / $4.00 out. If you were on K2.5, the upgrade is non-breaking on the API side -- Moonshot routes the K2.6 model under the same endpoint family
2026-04-20•Moonshot Kimi blog (kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6), HuggingFace moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6, Artificial Analysis, OpenRouter, SiliconANGLE
Self-hosting K2.5 / K2.6 at usable speed requires $30K+ in enterprise GPU hardware (8x H200 FP8 or 16x H100 production-grade) -- realistically this is a hosted-API model. Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB unified RAM at Q2 quantization runs the model but at ~3 tok/s
2026-03•Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, llm-stats.com
Early K2.5 releases had inconsistent tool-calling when quantized below Q4 -- community fixes landed March 2026; K2.6 inherits the same tool-use stack so quant guidance carries forward
2026-03•Hugging Face discussions

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Qwen (Alibaba)

8.8

Alibaba's open-weights + API family -- Qwen3.6-27B dense (Apr 22 2026 Apache 2.0, beats the 397B MoE flagship on coding from a single consumer GPU), Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview (Apr 20 2026 closed-weights #1 on SWE-bench Pro/Terminal-Bench 2.0/SciCode), Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apr 16 open-weights MoE), plus Qwen 3.6-Plus API flagship

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MiniMax M2.7

8.4

MiniMax's open-weights self-evolving agent flagship -- M2.7 (released 2026-03-18) scores 56.22% SWE-Pro and 57.0% Terminal Bench 2 from a 229B/10B-active MoE

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Gemma 4 (Google)

8.3

Google DeepMind's open-weights model family -- multimodal, 256K context, runs on edge devices

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IBM Granite 4.0

8.2

IBM's enterprise-focused open-weight family -- Granite 4.0 hybrid Mamba-2 + transformer architecture (70-80% memory reduction vs pure transformer), 3B to 32B sizes, Apache 2.0. First open model family to secure ISO 42001 certification. Nano 350M runs on CPU with 8-16GB RAM. 3B Vision variant landed 2026-04-01

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gpt-oss (OpenAI)

8.1

OpenAI's FIRST open-weight models -- gpt-oss-120b (single 80GB GPU, near parity with o4-mini on reasoning) and gpt-oss-20b (runs on 16GB edge devices). Apache 2.0. Launched 2025-08-05. gpt-oss-safeguard ships in 2026 as the safety-tuned variant

About Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot)

Tier A (8.1/10). Moonshot's 1T-parameter MoE open-weights flagship -- Kimi K2.6 (GA 2026-04-20) is #1 open-weights on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 (score 54, ranked #4 overall). Native video input, 256K context, Modified MIT license

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