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.
| GLM-5.2 Fast Preview zai-org/glm-5.2-fast-preview | Kimi-K2.6 moonshot/kimi-k2.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Moonshot |
| Family | Kimi | |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | — | 262,144 tok |
| Max output | — | 16,384 tok |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2026-04-20 |
| Input price | $2.80 /1M | $0.950 /1M |
| Output price | $8.80 /1M | $4.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | $0.160 /1M |
| Tools | yes | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | — | yes |
| JSON mode | yes | yes |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | yes |
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 GLM-5.2 Fast Preview
client.chat.completions.create(
model="zai-org/glm-5.2-fast-preview",
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"}],
)