Kimi-K2.6 — Preview or Removed — shutdown 2027-04-16 or 2026-08-19 — sources disagree
For Kimi-K2.6, provider is Microsoft Azure / Foundry; lifecycle status is disputed: Preview per learn.microsoft.com, Removed per docs.together.ai; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 2027-04-16 per learn.microsoft.com, 2026-08-19 per docs.together.ai; platform / deployment scope is Azure / Microsoft Foundry, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-10-13.
- Provider
- Microsoft Azure / Foundry our reading
- Together AI per docs.together.ai
- Model ID / API name
- Kimi-K2.6 verified
- Human-readable model name
- Kimi-K2.6 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Preview sources disagree
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2027-04-16 sources disagree
- Platform / deployment scope
- Azure / Microsoft Foundry our reading
- Together AI serverless inference per docs.together.ai
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
| Kimi-K2.6 | 2026-04-20 | Preview | 2027-04-16 | — |
— learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Shutdown / retirement date
| Model | Version | Lifecycle | Retirement date | Replacement | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Kimi-K2.5 | 1 | Preview | 2027-01-26 | — | | Kimi-K2.6 | 2026-04-20 | Preview | 2027-04-16 | — |
— all from learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Lifecycle status
learn.microsoft.com says lifecycle status is Preview, as of 2026-08-28.
| Kimi-K2.6 | 2026-04-20 | Preview | 2027-04-16 | — |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
docs.together.ai says lifecycle status is Removed, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-08-19 | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6` | Yes |
https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
Shutdown / retirement date
learn.microsoft.com says shutdown / retirement date is 2027-04-16, as of 2026-08-28.
| Kimi-K2.6 | 2026-04-20 | Preview | 2027-04-16 | — |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
docs.together.ai says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-08-19, as of 2026-09-15.
| 2026-08-19 | `moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6` | Yes |
Where the other sources' values come from
These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.
Lifecycle status
The table below lists all models removed from serverless inference, most recent first.
— docs.together.ai, retrieved 2026-09-15
Sources
- learn.microsoft.comhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
- docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations