LLM Comparison

Kimi K2 0905 vs MiniMax M2.5

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026

Price vs Intelligence

5853484338$0.39$0.68$0.97$1.27$1.56Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceKimi K2 090548.3 / $1.20MiniMax M2.547.8 / $0.55

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 Moonshot AIKimi K2 0905MiniMaxMiniMax M2.5
OrganizationMoonshot AIMoonshot AIMiniMaxMiniMax
OpenTools Score
48
40.3
48
86.3
FamilyKimiMiniMax
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateSep 2025Feb 2026
Context Window262K tokens197K tokens
Input Price$0.40/M tokens$0.12/M tokens
Output Price$2.00/M tokens$0.99/M tokens
Pricing Notes—Cache read: $0.0590/M tokens
Capabilities
textcode
textcode
Max Output262K tokens66K tokens
API Identifiermoonshotai/kimi-k2-0905minimax/minimax-m2.5
Benchmarks
GPQA Diamond
76.6667artificial-analysis
84.8485artificial-analysis
AIME 2025
57.3333artificial-analysis
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
MiniMax M2.5Cheapest$0.12$0.50$0.61—
Kimi K2 0905$0.40$1.00$1.40+128%

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 0905

Kimi K2 0905 is a large language model from Moonshot AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Available from $0.40/M input tokens.

MiniMax

MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax. Supports up to 196,608 token context window. Available from $0.12/M input tokens.

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