DeepSeek V3.2 vs Kimi K2.6: API price and specs

DeepSeek V3.2 is 44% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on input price.

DeepSeek V3.2 is 82% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on output price.

DeepSeek V3.2 is 62% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Kimi K2.6 has a 59.8% larger context than DeepSeek V3.2.

Field	DeepSeek V3.2	Kimi K2.6
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.22	$0.39 +77.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.30	$0.95 +216.7%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.33	$1.80 +445.5%
Median output, per 1M	$0.50	$4.00 +700%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.29	$0.75 +162.2%
Context	164K +37.4%	262K
Max output	164K +37.4%	262K
Providers	29 +39.6%	48
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	APAC, CH, EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	text	file, image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, text, video, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	yes
Cheapest provider	tokengo	chutes

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aihubmix, azure, chutes, cortecs, deepinfra, digitalocean, edenai, fastrouter, huggingface, io-net, kilo, meganova, melious, nearai, ofox, openrouter, poe, requesty, siliconflow, tensorx, tokengo, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3.2 or Kimi K2.6?

DeepSeek V3.2 is 44% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on input price. DeepSeek V3.2 is 82% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on output price. DeepSeek V3.2 is 62% cheaper than Kimi K2.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, DeepSeek V3.2 or Kimi K2.6?

DeepSeek V3.2: 164K tokens; Kimi K2.6: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.6?