Side-by-side comparison of Kimi-K2.6 (Moonshot AI · China) and Llama 4 Scout (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi-K2.6 is rated conditional; Llama 4 Scout is conditional. They part ways on licence: Kimi-K2.6 is "Modified MIT", Llama 4 Scout is "Llama community".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, Kimi-K2.6 ships under a Modified MIT licence: identical to standard MIT for almost all deployers, with an additional UI-attribution requirement only for products exceeding 100M monthly active users or USD 20M monthly revenue. The genuine EU-readiness concerns are the China-based vendor and the absence of any training-data disclosure rather than the licence itself. | Conditional Smaller Llama 4 variant: 17B active over 16 experts, multimodal. More self-hostable than Maverick. Same Llama community licence caveats. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Attribution at scale | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 54/100 | 14/100 |
| Speed | — | 128 tok/s |
| Blended price | $1.71/M | $0.29/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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