At 8 requests/user/day (totaling 2,400,000 queries/mo), running Agentic workflow on Kimi K2.6 costs $81,360.00 / month ($8.136 / user / mo).
Agentic workflow for a 10,000 active users (scale-up saas) audience means 80,000 requests per day on average, each carrying 40,000 input and 1,500 output tokens at a 65% cacheable share — so the effective per-request cost on Kimi K2.6 is $0.0339, of which $84,240.00/mo comes back from prompt caching. Per active user that's $8.136/mo — the number to hold against your pricing tier and gross margin. Charging at least $40.68/user/mo keeps gross margin at or above 80%.
Quick answer
For 10,000 Active Users, Agentic workflow on Kimi K2.6 is modeled at 2,400,000 requests per month, costing $81,360.00 per month or $8.136 per active user.
Method & trust
This projection combines the selected active-user tier, requests per user per day, input/output tokens per request, and the modeled cache share. It is an operating estimate, not a provider invoice; production traffic and retries should be measured against it.
Total expected API invoice for 10,000 Active Users generating 2,400,000 queries.
Direct inference cost per MAU to model your SaaS pricing tiers and gross margins.
Savings generated by exploiting 65% cache hits on prompt context.
| Model | Provider | Monthly Spend (10,000 Active Users) | Cost / User / Mo | Annual Spend | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K2.6 (Current) | moonshot | $81,360.00 | $8.136 | $976,320.00 | 1,000,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | openai | $122,880.00 | $12.288 | $1,474,560.00 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 Workhorse | openai | $153,600.00 | $15.36 | $1,843,200.00 | 256,000 |
| o3-mini | openai | $87,120.00 | $8.712 | $1,045,440.00 | 200,000 |
| o4-mini | openai | $69,960.00 | $6.996 | $839,520.00 | 256,000 |
| o1-mini | openai | $87,120.00 | $8.712 | $1,045,440.00 | 128,000 |
At 8 queries per user/day with Kimi K2.6, the estimated cost is $8.136 per monthly active user (MAU). Total monthly bill for 10,000 Active Users is $81,360.00.
Assuming a 65% cache hit rate on repeated system and context tokens, prompt caching saves $84,240.00 per month ($1,010,880.00/year) on Kimi K2.6.
With a direct COGS of $8.136 per user/month on Kimi K2.6, charging at least $40.68 per user/month ensures an 80%+ software gross margin.