The explosives were found in a truck seized along with five militants in an operation last Sunday, a National Directorate of Security spokesman said.
The group was planning to attack crowded areas in the capital, he said.
He also gave reporters a video detailing plans for a separate attack on Vice-President Mohammed Khalili.
Describing the planned bomb attack on Kabul, the spokesman, Shafiqullah Tahiri, said the 10 tonnes of explosives were stuffed in 400 bags and hidden under piles of potatoes.
"If this amount of explosives had been used, it could have caused large-scale bloodshed," Mr Tahiri said.
He said three of the captured militants are Pakistani citizens, and two are Afghans.
The five suspects had confessed that the planned attack was co-ordinated by two Taliban commanders with links to Pakistan's main intelligence organisation the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), according to the spokesman.
The arrests, which came during a wave of insurgent attacks around the country, was kept quiet at the time because of the ongoing security operation, he said.
Afghanistan has often accused the ISI of involvement in supporting anti-government insurgents in Afghanistan - an allegation strongly denied by Pakistan.
Last week, 51 people died in a wave of co-ordinated attacks by insurgents in Kabul and three other provinces.
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