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.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Grok Imagine Video xai/grok-imagine-video | Kimi-K2.6 moonshot/kimi-k2.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Moonshot |
| Family | Kimi | |
| Modality | video | text |
| Context window | — | 262,144 tok |
| Max output | — | 16,384 tok |
| Released | 2026-05-22 | 2026-04-20 |
| Input price | $0.050 /sec | $0.950 /1M |
| Output price | — | $4.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | $0.160 /1M |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | — | yes |
| Vision | — | yes |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | — | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | yes |
xAI's video generation model. Generates, edits, and extends videos from text and image inputs with native synchronized audio including dialogue, sound effects, and music. Supports multiple creative modes (normal, fun, custom).
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.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Grok Imagine Video
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-imagine-video",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Kimi-K2.6 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)