Kimi K2.6

I’d like to know what your experience has been with the Kimi K2.6 model. In my experience as a free user, K2.6 feels better and more accurate than GPT-5.2 Low Thinking and GLM-5.1.

Is that really the case? And, are Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6/4.7 even better?

I ran out of usage pretty fast this week due to some pretty dense design work, so I've been messing around with K2.6 after backing up my files. It's nowhere near as intelligent or capable as Opus 4.6, I even took the time to optimize for it and create specific rules and .mds so it can operate better at a core level. It's unable to operate in an already established system with clear rules and files to instruct it on how it works to read and that it reads every session start.

It CANNOT understand and work with the system and constantly forgets parts of it. It can't fix simple code and system problems without 10 different iterations.

It is pretty good at visual analysis, better than opus imo. It's analysis of youtube videos and animations and images is way better.

Kimi lacks design taste and that robust reasoning system and eloquent outputs, and anthro hidden files touch that make Opus feel amazing to use sometimes. I've been fighting with Kimi pretty much since I downloaded it.

I will only be using it for sub agents and specific research work.

I am using Ollama cloud btw

I’ve been using Kimi K2.6 on opencode go and I’m really pleased with the results, but since they removed the generous 3x limits, I guess it’s time to look for an alternative provider.

I tried DeepSeek V4 Flash, but it can’t process images and honestly isn’t on Kimi K2.6’s level. What other options do I have now?

I checked Kimi’s $19 Moderato plan, but the limits seem pretty low, and people on the Kimi sub have been complaining about it.

I’ve also seen people recommending Ollama Cloud’s $20 plan. What do you guys think? Could I get away with it if I mainly use only Kimi K2.6 on Ollama Cloud?

After testing it and getting some customer feedback too, its the first model I'd confidently recommend to our customers as an Opus 4.7 replacement.

It's not really better than Opus 4.7 at anything, but, it can do about 85% of the tasks that Opus can at a reasonable quality, and, it has vision and very good browser use.

I've been slowly replacing some of my personal workflows with Kimi K2.6 and it works surprisingly well, especially for long time horizon tasks.

Sure the model is monstrously big, but I think it shows that frontier LLMs like Opus 4.7 are not necessarily bringing anything new to the table. People are complaining about usage limits as well, it looks like local is the way to go.

That shit sometimes takes four minutes to generate a response. It really immerses you in the achingly slow burn experience!