How did Kimi K2.6 on Baseten do on X?

Baseten posted the Kimi K2.6 on Baseten launch from @baseten on Apr 20, 2026. The post has 116,997 views, 140 likes, 8 reposts, 4 quotes and 12 replies, an engagement rate of 0.14%. It ranks #1641 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Baseten@baseten · 23.5K followersView on X
Kimi K2.6 has landed, and it is live on Baseten! We have baked in multiple inference optimizations so that you can leverage Kimi K2.6 in production right away. To run Kimi K2.6, Baseten uses: -> The Baseten Inference Stack with advanced optimizations, including KV-aware routing -> NVFP4 weights to unlock maximum performance on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs -> Multimodal hierarchical caching for low-latency vision input -> Prefill-decode disaggregation for LLM inference optimization. Try it now at: https://www.baseten.co/library/kimi-k26
Kimi K2.6 on Baseten launch post media
Apr 20, 2026 · 116,997 views
  • 67%the median launch175K median views
  • #1641of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 5.0xits own following23,518 followers
Views
117K
Likes
140
Reposts
8
Quotes
4
Replies
12
Bookmarks
46

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 117K views would cost $12K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 8.5x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 5.0 views for every follower of @baseten.

What launched?

Baseten made Kimi K2.6 available on its platform, running on the Baseten Inference Stack with NVFP4 weights for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

How does it compare with other launches?

Kimi K2.6 on Baseten has more views than 42% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 67% of the median launch's 175K views.

  • Kimi K2.6 on Baseten117K
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricKimi K2.6 on BasetenMedian launch
Views117K175K
Engagement rate0.14%0.48%
Views per follower5.02.8
Quote posts427
Saves per 10K views3.914.2

Other Baseten launches we track: Baseten elephant-1 and mammoth-1 (36.7K views) and Baseten joey-1 (34.8K views). All 3 Baseten launches, or every infrastructure launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
Infrastructure launches15974.3K1.6x#64
Accounts 10K to 100K followers1,13599.4K1.2x#531
Image launch posts620143.1K82%#338
Every launch2,839175K67%#1641

What this launch shows

From an account with 23.5K followers, the post reached 5.0 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 1.6 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 531 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 4 quote posts, 0.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Kimi K2.6 has landed, and it is live on Baseten!". The post runs 75 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Monday (UTC). Monday launches have a median of 181.4K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is Baseten?
In its own words on X: "Inference is everything." Baseten posted the Kimi K2.6 on Baseten launch from @baseten on Apr 20, 2026.
How many views did Kimi K2.6 on Baseten get on X?
116,997 views. Baseten posted it from @baseten on Apr 20, 2026, and the post has 140 likes, 8 reposts, 4 quotes, 12 replies and 46 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Kimi K2.6 on Baseten a big launch on X?
It ranks #1641 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 42% of them and 67% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.14%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 117K views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 117K views would cost $12K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 8.5x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/baseten-kimi-k2-6-on-baseten, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.