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Kimi K2.6 vs Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Kimi K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
ProviderMoonshotMeta
FamilyKimiLlama 4
Modalitytexttext
Context window262,144 tok131,000 tok
Max output16,384 tok4,096 tok
Released2026-04-202025-04-05
Input price$0.950 /1M$0.270 /1M
Output price$4.00 /1M$0.850 /1M
Cache read$0.160 /1M
Toolsyesyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyesyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt cachingyes
Kimi K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Full spec →

Kimi K2.6 is a frontier-scale open-source 1T parameter model with a 262.1k context window, multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs for agentic workloads.

Strengths
  • Frontier-scale 1T parameters, open-weight
  • ~10× cheaper than Opus
  • Multi-turn tool calling + vision
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
Full spec →

Meta's Llama 4 Scout is a 17 billion parameter model with 16 experts that is natively multimodal. These models leverage a mixture-of-experts architecture to offer industry-leading performance in text and image understanding.

Strengths
  • MoE (17B active / ~100B total)
  • Strong multi-lingual
  • Open-weight license
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Kimi K2.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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