Is moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 cheaper?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper on output tokens ($2.18 vs $4.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1?

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 has the larger context window (262K tokens).

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper on output tokens, while moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 offers a larger context window. Choose moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Provider	SiliconFlow	SiliconFlow
Input / 1M tokens	$0.77	$0.50
Output / 1M tokens	$4.00	$2.18
Context window	262K	164K
Parameters	1T	671B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Apr 2026	May 2025

moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 details →deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 details →

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