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Kimi-K2.6 vs FLUX 3 Video

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 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
FLUX 3 Video
black-forest-labs/flux-3-video
Provider
Moonshot
Black Forest Labs
Family
Kimi
FLUX
Modality
text
video
Context window
262,144 tok
Max output
16,384 tok
Released
2026-04-20
2026-08-04
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$0.950 /1M
Output price
$4.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.160 /1M
Per output second
$0.170 /sec
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
yes
Batch API
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Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
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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
Use cases
Code agentsLong-document reasoningCost-conscious production
FLUX 3 Video
black-forest-labs/flux-3-video
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FLUX 3 Video is Black Forest Labs' video generation model. It generates video from a text prompt (t2v), animates one or more reference images (i2v), or continues an existing clip (v2v), with synchronized audio, up to fhd resolution, and 5-20 second durations.

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
Use cases
PromosDemosStoryboards

Benchmarks

Kimi-K2.6
FLUX 3 Video
HumanEval
92.7
SWE-Bench
68.2

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

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

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

# FLUX 3 Video
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="black-forest-labs/flux-3-video",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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