$ diff kimi-k3 minimax-m3
Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M3
Moonshot AI and MiniMax, side by side. Every value below is the one recorded on the model’s own wiki page, with its citation — nothing is estimated.
Moonshot AIKimi K3
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $3
- $/M out
- $15
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — Kimi K3 under Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable), MiniMax M3 under Open-weight (HuggingFace). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- Kimi K3 shipped 45 days after MiniMax M3 (2026-07-16 vs 2026-06-01).
Full spec
| Attribute | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Moonshot AI | MiniMax |
| Released | 2026-07-16 | 2026-06-01 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1,000,000 tokens (1M); min. 512K guaranteed |
| Pricing | $0.30/M cache-hit input · $3.00/M cache-miss input · $15.00/M output | Available via API; pricing on OpenRouter |
| License | Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable) | Open-weight (HuggingFace) |
| Availability | Kimi Code, Kimi app, Kimi API; weights on Hugging Face (`moonshot-ai/kimi-k3`, released 2026-07-27) | API (global, including English) + open-weight on HuggingFace |
Values come from Kimi K3 and MiniMax M3, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing. How these pages are produced.