Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by Frannky on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:49AM (#47993441)

I have to try Kimi. I was looking for an alternative. If you have any experience, advice, please share. I saw Kimi is at the top of the Open Router ranking.

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by zorked on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:01AM (#47993501)

I use Kimi at home via a kimi.com subscription and Kimi CLI (sometimes running inside Zed, sometimes not). My favorite model by far. And it's just $20.

I have to use a supposedly frontier model at work and I hate it.

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by Frannky on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:08AM (#47993543)

Nice, thanks for sharing!

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by DeathArrow on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:03AM (#47993507)

Kimi K2.6 is great but I advice you to get a coding plan from Kimi.com as that way is much cheaper than paying for API calls using OpenRouter.

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by Frannky on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:08AM (#47993536)

Thanks, I am trying it right now. I had an opencode plan 5$/month, so I will play with that. I use ZED and I added Pi ACP, so I can try the both pi and Kimi. I will also try it in opencode and via Kimi code.

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by prvnsmpth on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:18AM (#47993595)

Use kimi 2.6 for planning and a cheap model (preferably local) for execution, and then kimi once again for reviewing it. Then finally I review the code. Saves a lot on tokens.

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Re:Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a codi... by Frannky on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:47AM (#47993767)

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I am testing it with Pi in Zed and it seems pretty good.

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