LLM Comparison

Kimi K2 0711 vs MiniMax M2.5

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

Price vs Intelligence

6659524538$0.39$0.76$1.13$1.50$1.87Avg Price per M tokensIntelligenceKimi K2 071156.3 / $1.43MiniMax M2.547.8 / $0.55

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Same tier:
 Moonshot AIKimi K2 0711MiniMaxMiniMax M2.5
OrganizationMoonshot AIMoonshot AIMiniMaxMiniMax
OpenTools Score
56
39.2
48
86.3
FamilyKimiMiniMax
StatusCurrentCurrent
Release DateJul 2025Feb 2026
Context Window131K tokens197K tokens
Input Price$0.57/M tokens$0.12/M tokens
Output Price$2.30/M tokens$0.99/M tokens
Pricing NotesCache read: $0.0590/M tokens
Capabilities
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Max Output33K tokens66K tokens
API Identifiermoonshotai/kimi-k2minimax/minimax-m2.5
Benchmarks
GPQA Diamond
75.1https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
84.8485artificial-analysis
MMLU
89.5https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
MMLU-Pro
81.1https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
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ModelInputOutputTotal / movs Best
MiniMax M2.5Cheapest$0.12$0.50$0.61
Kimi K2 0711$0.57$1.15$1.72+181%

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