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

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
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
Provider
Moonshot
Meta
Family
Kimi
Llama 4
Modality
text
text
Context window
262,144 tok
131,072 tok
Max output
16,384 tok
4,096 tok
Released
2026-04-20
2025-04-05
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$0.950 /1M
$0.270 /1M
Output price
$4.00 /1M
$0.850 /1M
Cache read
$0.160 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
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
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
Use cases
General chatMulti-lingualPrivate / on-prem parity

Benchmarks

Kimi-K2.6
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
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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O3 vs Kimi-K2.6
openai/o3 · moonshot/kimi-k2.6
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"}],
)

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