Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text
Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M
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MiniMax M2
Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M2
Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and MiniMax M2 from Minimax on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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MiniMax M2
Minimax · text → text
MiniMax-M2 redefines efficiency for intelligent agents. It is a compact, fast, and cost-effective MoE model with a total of 230 billion parameters and 10 billion active parameters, designed for top performance in coding and intelligent agent tasks while maintaining strong general intelligence. With only 10 billion active parameters, MiniMax-M2 delivers the complex end-to-end tool usage performance expected from today's leading models, but in a more streamlined form factor, making deployment and scaling easier than ever before.
Input$0.29 /M
Output$1.15 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Kimi K3
MiniMax M2
Input /M
$3.00
$0.29
Output /M
$15.00
$1.15
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.29
Context length
1,048,576
204,800
Max output
1,048,576
192,000
Time to First Token
0.9 s
1.4 s
Throughput
73.1 tok/s
64.8 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
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Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
kimi-k3minimax-m2
1260134014201500
Overall
13461486
Coding
13851531
Math
13551355
Hard prompts
13681505
Instruction following
13401479
Multi-turn
13641499
Creative writing
12881470
Longer query
13431502
Chinese
13871527
English
13711491
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
MiniMax M2
$34.56 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, MiniMax M2?
MiniMax M2: $1.15/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
How do their coding arena scores compare?
Kimi K3: 1531; MiniMax M2: 1385 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and MiniMax M2 accepts 204,800 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 192,000 tokens on MiniMax M2.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and MiniMax M2 at 64.8 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; MiniMax M2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2 with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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