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Kimi K2.6 API in Europe: managed deployment

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts for general reasoning, coding and long-context agent work. Available as a managed deployment: validated on AxForge hardware and deployed on a multi-GPU system for your traffic only, as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on hardware only you use, hosted in the EU.

Available as managed deployment eu-es-1 · Málaga Text + vision
Request deployment Qwen3.8 27B, on the API now Hardware and managed service Quoted per deployment, confirmed in writing before anything is billed.

Why Kimi K2.6

What you get

Frontier scale, open weightsOne of the largest open models available: a mixture-of-experts at the trillion-parameter scale.
Reasoning and codingHigh-accuracy reasoning and coding variants come from the same family; K2.6 is the general model.
Licence reviewedKimi K2.6 ships under Moonshot's own licence; AxForge reviews it with you and deploys under it where it applies.

Specifications

The model

ModelKimi K2.6 by moonshotai
ModalitiesText + vision, accepts image input
Sizes1.0T
Released2026-04
Popularity685k downloads / month on HuggingFace
LicenceCommercial licence needed (the model's own licence); AxForge handles the licence where one is required
AvailabilityAvailable as managed deployment, operated by AxForge on hardware reserved for you
HardwareMulti-GPU system (H100, H200 or B200 class) sourced against your request
RegionEuropean region, placement confirmed with your request
PricingHardware and managed service Quoted per deployment. Request deployment and we confirm both in writing.

We publish only numbers we measure ourselves, and we haven't benchmarked this model on our nodes yet. For quality benchmarks, see the model card in the catalogue and the official card on HuggingFace.

Deployment

What "managed deployment" means

SystemA multi-GPU system reserved for you, sized to the model and your traffic
Commercial modelHardware and managed service Quoted per deployment
EndpointOpenAI-compatible /v1 on your own machine, only your traffic
LocationHosted in the EU: Málaga, Spain (eu-es-1)
Data handlingZero prompt retention, same policy as the serverless API

The model is validated on AxForge hardware and deployed on your system. After deployment, your endpoint speaks the OpenAI API with the model name you receive with the deployment.

Data & privacy

Zero prompt retention

Prompts and completions are processed in memory in the EU, not written to disk, not logged, not retained, and never used to train anything. We keep only request metadata (token counts, timestamps, status) for billing and operations. The full policy is at axforge.ai/privacy.

FAQ

Kimi K2.6 hosting: common questions

Is Kimi K2.6 on the AxForge serverless API?

Not on the serverless API. It is available as a managed deployment: validated on AxForge hardware and deployed on a multi-GPU system for your traffic only. The serverless API serves Qwen3.8 27B.

What hardware does Kimi K2.6 need?

A multi-GPU system of H200 or B200 class, sourced against your request and confirmed in writing before anything is billed.

K2.6 or K3?

K3 is the newer, natively multimodal model; K2.6 is the text-first general model of the K2 line. Either runs on a dedicated multi-GPU system.

How fast is Kimi K2.6 on your hardware?

We publish only numbers we measure ourselves, and we haven't benchmarked this model on our nodes yet. For quality benchmarks, see the official model card.

What does a dedicated Kimi K2.6 deployment look like?

A multi-GPU system reserved for you, running Kimi K2.6 behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, hosted in the EU with zero prompt retention.

What does EU Kimi K2.6 hosting cost?

Hardware and the managed service are Quoted per deployment. Request deployment and we confirm both in writing.

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