Kimi K2 Thinking vs MiniMax M3
Compare Kimi K2 Thinking by Moonshot AI against MiniMax M3 by MiniMax, context windows of 262K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K2 Thinking
MiniMax M3
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Kimi K2 Thinking
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
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
MiniMax M3 uses 115.0x more emoji
Kimi K2 Thinking
MiniMax M3
57%Vocabulary55%
26wSentence Length24w
0.36Hedging0.52
5.8Bold5.2
6.0Lists3.0
0.00Emoji1.15
0.56Headings1.21
0.06Transitions0.02
Based on 14 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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