MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs Microsoft: Phi 4

Side-by-side comparison — pricing, context window, capabilities, and live leaderboard data.

Key differences

  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 has a 262K-token context window — 16.0× larger than Microsoft: Phi 4's 16K.
  • Microsoft: Phi 4 is 91% cheaper per 1K input tokens than MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ($0.0001 vs $0.0007).
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is built by OpenRouter; Microsoft: Phi 4 is built by Microsoft.
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 supports vision (image inputs); the other does not.

Specifications

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6Microsoft: Phi 4
ProviderOpenRouterMicrosoft
Context window262K16K
Max output tokens81928192
Input price / 1K tokens$0.0007$0.0001
Output price / 1K tokens$0.0035$0.0001
Vision supportYesNo
Function callingNoNo
LicenseOpen WeightsProprietary

About MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

CN·Open weights

Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's next-generation multimodal model, designed for long-horizon coding, coding-driven UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration. It handles complex end-to-end coding tasks across Python, Rust, and Go, and...

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About Microsoft: Phi 4

US·Closed

[Microsoft Research](/microsoft) Phi-4 is designed to perform well in complex reasoning tasks and can operate efficiently in situations with limited memory or where quick responses are needed. At 14 billion...

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