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Kilo Code Setup Guide: Custom Endpoints and Profiles

Configure Kilo Code against your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint, set the model metadata it cannot infer, and assign different models per mode with profiles.

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 Guide: Specs, Pricing and Where It Still Wins

Moonshot shipped K3 four months after K2.6, but the older model did not become useless. What K2.6 is, what it costs, and the jobs it is still the right pick for.

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: Four Axes That Decide It

Two models released three days apart with opposite design goals. Active parameters, context length, licensing and vision decide which one fits your workload.

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: Sight or Depth

K2.6 sees images at 256K context under a custom licence. V4 Pro is text-only, MIT, 1M context, and reasons harder. Two models that barely overlap.

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs GLM-5.2: Vision and 256K, or MIT and 1M

K2.6 sees images and stops at 256K context under a custom licence. GLM-5.2 is text-only, MIT, and takes 1M tokens. Two clean trade-offs, no overlap.

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs MiniMax M3: Two Ways to Do Multimodal

Both take images natively, but one gives you 256K of context at a known price and the other 1M at a price sources disagree on. How to pick between them.

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen 3.6: Hosted MoE or a Single GPU

A trillion-parameter vision model you rent against a dense 27B you can own. The comparison is about deployment shape, not a few points of benchmark difference.

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Widest Gap in Open Weights

The strongest open-weight model against one of the cheapest, both with 1M context. When a twenty-fold price difference is worth paying and when it is waste.

· 9 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs Kimi K2.6: Is the Upgrade Worth 4x the Price?

K3 is the stronger model. K2.6 costs roughly a quarter as much per output token and activates a third of the parameters. When the older model is still the right call.

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M3: The Top and the Floor

One is the strongest open-weight model available. The other is among the cheapest capable ones and natively multimodal. The gap between them is a budget decision.

· 8 min read
Models

Kimi K3 vs Qwen 3.6: A Cluster or a Single GPU

K3 needs roughly 1.6TB of weights and multi-node serving. Qwen 3.6 27B is dense and fits on one accelerator. The comparison is about deployment, not benchmarks.

· 8 min read
Fundamentals

KV Cache Explained: The Memory Behind Long Context

The KV cache is why generation is fast and why long context is expensive in memory rather than compute. What it stores and what it costs you.

· 8 min read

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