Kimi-K2.6
An update to the Kimi series, delivering stronger performance across the board and making it one of the best open models out there yet again. They also focus on long-horizon performance, showing that open models are capable of running over hours to complete tasks or optimize performance. Given the focus of everyone to build autoresearch-like systems, seeing open models catch up is important.
Relative Adoption Metric contextualizes downloads against the model's size bucket.
OpenRouter publishes daily token totals for its ~50 most-served models. Days missing from the chart mean Kimi-K2.6 fell below that cutoff — not zero usage. OpenRouter logs usage separately per dated model version and per variant (like ":free"); the hub combines provider variants while keeping separately cataloged releases distinct.
