# Kimi K2.6 vs GLM-5.1 - AI Model Comparison

- Page: https://opencode.ai/data/compare/moonshotai/kimi-k2-6/zhipuai/glm-5-1
- Updated: 2026-10-02T09:36:21.000Z

|  | Kimi K2.6 | GLM-5.1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Moonshot | Zhipu |
| Context window | 262K | 200K |
| Max output | 262K | 131K |
| Input modalities | text, image, video | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Release date | 2026-04-21 | 2026-04-07 |
| Input price per 1M tokens | $0.74 | $1.40 |
| Output price per 1M tokens | $3.72 | $4.40 |
| Cached input price per 1M tokens | - | $0.26 |
| OpenCode tokens: past 2 months | 286B | 161B |
| Share of all tokens | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Rank by tokens last week | #36 | #38 |
| Unique users | 153K | 88K |
| Weekly retention | 55.9% | 53.8% |

Model pages: [Kimi K2.6](https://opencode.ai/data/moonshotai/kimi-k2-6.md), [GLM-5.1](https://opencode.ai/data/zhipuai/glm-5-1.md)

## Methodology

- Updates: Aggregated every hour. Days and weeks use UTC.
- Tokens: Input, output, reasoning, and cached tokens for each request.
- Users and sessions: Approximate counts of distinct users and OpenCode sessions.
- Cost: Session cost is the average cost per OpenCode session. Token prices are list prices from the OpenCode model catalog.
- Retention: The share of a model's users in one week who use it again the next week.
- Citation: Cite OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data) with the update time shown at the top of the page.