Kimi K2.6 Now Available for Telnyx Inference API

22, Apr 2026

Kimi K2.6 is now available on the Telnyx Inference API through the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint. Built by Moonshot AI, K2.6 advances on K2.5 with stronger long-horizon task adherence, tighter constraint following, and improved third-party API understanding.

What's new

Kimi K2.6 model: Moonshot AI's latest open-weight model, accessible via the Inference API with model ID moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6.
Stronger agentic performance: K2.6 completes multi-step tasks in fewer iterations with higher constraint adherence than K2.5, reducing retry loops in production agents.
Drop-in integration: Works with the existing OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. No new endpoints, no SDK updates required.

Why it matters

Running inference on Telnyx keeps your LLM calls on the same private backbone as your STT and TTS pipelines, cutting the latency hops that come with routing to a separate provider.
K2.6's stronger task adherence means agentic workflows that rely on multi-step reasoning and external API calls complete more reliably with fewer retries.
Evaluating open-weight models without changing your integration means zero migration cost when switching between models on the platform.

Voice AI teams that need LLM inference and telephony on the same network to reduce round-trip latency for real-time agent calls.
Developers building multi-step agentic pipelines where task completion consistency matters at production scale.
Engineering teams evaluating open-weight models for production without committing to a proprietary inference provider.

Open the LLM Playground in Mission Control.
Select moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 from the model dropdown.
Send a prompt to test the model, or integrate it into your application using the Chat Completions API.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_TELNYX_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://api.telnyx.com/v2/ai/inference"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the advantage of on-network inference for voice AI agents."}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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Kimi K2.6 Now Available for Telnyx Inference API

22, Apr 2026

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