Model comparison

Kimi K2.6 vs Ring-2.6-1T

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 2 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.6 leads 40.5 to 26.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 53.5% for Kimi K2.6 and 42.4% for Ring-2.6-1T.

Side by side

Kimi K2.6 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Kimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderMoonshot AIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index47.736.9
Released2026-04-202026-05-14
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.95—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked513

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
SciCode53.5%42.4%
ALE-Bench1,093432.57
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1509—
WeirdML55.9%—
LMArena Coding1488—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
OSWorld 2.04.6%—
ExploitBench18.4%—
GBAEval0.9%—
GDP.pdf12%—
Vending-Bench 26,205—

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
CritPt8%3.7%
NYT Connections (extended)87.2%—
Chess Puzzles26%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1470—
Mystery Game Puzzles18%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA37.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.05—

Math Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond90.8%—
SimpleQA Verified34.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.8%—
LMArena Expert1491—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 23.9%—
Furniture Assembly21.7%—
LMArena Document1451—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1446—
LMArena Chinese1521—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1450—
LMArena Japanese1443—
LMArena Korean1427—
LMArena Russian1446—
LMArena Spanish1464—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1451—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Longer Query1468—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1455—
LMArena Creative Writing1434—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1725—
EQ-Bench 41202—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Kimi K2.6 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and Ring-2.6-1T share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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