People thinking to self-host Kimi K2.6 had better be prepared for how big it is.

Q8 K XL quantization for instance is around 600GB on disk. I would bet about 700GB of VRAM needed.

Quantizations lower than Q8 are probably worthless for quality.

Or 2.05TB on disk for the full precision GGUF.

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi-K2.6-GGUF

If you can afford the hardware to run Kimi K2.6 at any decent speed for more than 1 simultaneous user, you probably have a whole team of people on staff who are already very familiar with how to benchmark it vs Claude, GPT-5.5, etc.