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Updated Jun 2026

Kimi K2 0905vsMiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 is cheaper than Kimi K2 0905 at $0.3/M vs $0.6/M input tokens.

Kimi K2 0905 and MiniMax M3 compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecKimi K2 0905MiniMax M3
Input price$0.6/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$2.5/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window262K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2025Jun 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 53 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

Kimi K2 09051,124 words
Dish “Mid-Winter Aurora” A transient bite of the polar night: spruce-ash cured scallop, sea-urchin & white-chocolate snow, black-garlic parsnip “soil”, pickled pine-bud glass, spruce-wood smoke encapsulated in a hot caramel sphere that melts tableside to release the aroma of a burning yule log while the sauce—fermented…
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MiniMax M31,795 words
TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque — A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision — a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush of…
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Kimi K2 0905192 words
Dish Name: “Midnight Magic Peanut-Butter Clouds” Pantry 7: Peanut butter – ½ cup Granulated sugar – ½ cup 1 large egg Vanilla extract – ½ tsp Baking soda – ¼ tsp Salt – 1 pinch Cocoa powder – 1 Tbsp (or 1 extra tsp sugar if you don’t want chocolate) Time: 5 min prep + 8 min bake = 13 minutes total Yield: 8–10 bite-size…
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MiniMax M3287 words
🌟 Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots 🌟 A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots – 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter – 3 tablespoons Honey – 2 tablespoons Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Salt – ½ teaspoon Black…
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Stochastic Consistency Test

Generate 5 jokes. How many are unique?

Kimi K2 090594 words
Here are five fresh jokes—no recycled one-liners: I tried to start a procrastinators’ club; we keep rescheduling the first meeting to “someday.” My plant’s only request is “leaf me alone,” so naturally I named it Fernonimo. I asked the cloud if it was having a good day—it replied, “I’m just cirrus-ly drifting.”
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MiniMax M3132 words
5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. 😲 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ⚛️ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. 🧔 5.
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Estimate Complexity

Estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. Explain your reasoning step by step.

Kimi K2 0905644 words
Below is a “back-of-the-envelope” that stays within a factor of ~2 of the number most practitioners quote (≈3×10²³ FLOP). We will do it twice—once with the simplest possible formula (parameter count × 6 × tokens) and once with a slightly more careful treatment of the actual tensor shapes inside the transformer.
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MiniMax M3379 words
Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…
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Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

Kimi K2 0905651 words
[Scene: A minimalist black-and-white studio, 2025. A single ring light throws a perfect halo on a familiar silhouette: black mock-turtleneck, faded Levi’s, white New Balance. The chair creaks as Steve Jobs leans forward. No intro music—just that stare.] Interviewer (I): Steve, you’ve been gone fourteen years.
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MiniMax M3465 words
Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatization—what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.
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Futuristic Prediction

Predict how AI will change the film industry by 2035, considering deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

Kimi K2 09051,018 words
By 2035 the phrase “making a movie” will feel as quaint as “developing a roll of film.” The studio of the future is a cloud dashboard; the “cast” is a licensable bundle of neural weights; the “writer” is a fine-tuned model that can pitch you 3,000 emotionally optimized story arcs before lunch.
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MiniMax M3748 words
AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.
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Our Verdict
Kimi K2 0905
Kimi K2 0905
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Too close to call

Reviewing agent-written code?See a Brief PR report

API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Kimi K2 0905
Input
$0.60
Output
$2.50
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
2.0× cheaper
Output
$1.20
2.1× cheaper

MiniMax M3 is cheaper on both: 2.0× input, 2.1× output.

Where to run it

14 hosts, cheapest first

Kimi K2 09051 host
HostInOutContextUptime
NNovitafp8$0.60 in·$2.50 out·262k·100% up
MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·99.9% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·99.6% upAAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·91.1% upMiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.5% upNNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.9% upPParasailfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·94.7% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
SStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99% upTTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.9% upVVenicefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·94.7% upMMara$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·93.5% upSSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·98.3% upMModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·99.7% upGGMI Cloudfp8degraded$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 20 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
59%

MiniMax M3 uses 10.0x more emoji

Kimi K2 0905
MiniMax M3
65%Vocabulary55%
21wSentence Length24w
0.16Hedging0.52
2.8Bold5.2
3.0Lists3.0
0.11Emoji1.15
0.69Headings1.21
0.06Transitions0.02
Based on 28 + 27 text responses
Research

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FAQ

Common questions

Kimi K2 0905 is developed by Moonshot AI while MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax. Kimi K2 0905 has a 262K token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Kimi K2 0905 and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Kimi K2 0905 costs $0.6/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $0.30/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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