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Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M2
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
MiniMax M2 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Kimi K3 · MiniMax M2 are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Kimi K3
#51 by perf·#17 by attention
MiniMax M2
#20 by perf·#11 by attention
Best value
MiniMax M2
12.6x better value than Kimi K3
Kimi K3
7.4 pts/$
$8.10/M
MiniMax M2
92.7 pts/$
$0.75/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Moonshot AI
$18.0B·Tier 1
MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.70 | $13.50 | 1.0M tokens (~524 books) | $54.00 | |
| $0.30 | $1.20 | 205K tokens (~102 books) | $5.25 |