Kimi K2 0711 vs MiniMax M3
Updated October 21, 2026. 20 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 20 shared
Decision reading
Pick Kimi K2 0711 for coding: it scores 64.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.8 for MiniMax M3.
Pick MiniMax M3 when output tokens cost 1.9x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 131K tokens.
Model AKimi K2 0711Moonshot AI64.7/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BMiniMax M3MiniMax57.8/1002 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved task
- Shared results
- 20
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 16
- MiniMax M3 only
- 96
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 scores 64.7 against 57.8.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads, 29.2 against 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has a AA Agentic Index result, 29.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads, 92.7% against 71.5%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a AIME result, 62.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads, 84.2% against 79.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads, 1257 against 1050.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiniMax M3
Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017, MiniMax M3 $0.0009 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only MiniMax M3 has the number, $0.56.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2 0711 64.7 from 2 benchmarks, MiniMax M3 57.8 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 35.7 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- IFBench: Kimi K2 0711 41.5% against MiniMax M3 82.9%, 41.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 against MiniMax M3 $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.9x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens, MiniMax M3 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Kimi K2 0711 | Bars | MiniMax M3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 5 | ||
| General | 0 | 2 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 20 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 59.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 70.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1482 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 58.6 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 70.5% | 82.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 1.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 19.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 51.5% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 47.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | 42.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 14.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 640.0 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1470 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1466 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1478 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1470 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 29.2 | MiniMax M3 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.0 | 146.9 | MiniMax M3 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 29.5 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1200 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1197 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1169 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1164 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1158 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1180 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1205 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1021 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 68.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 8.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 12.4% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 48.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 29.8% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.8% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 61.1% | 88.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 37.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Not measured | 4.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $2,158 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% | 92.7% | MiniMax M3 |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 74.5% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.6% | 92.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.4% | 39.0% | MiniMax M3 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 90.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | 45.8% | MiniMax M3 |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 13.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 8.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1447 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1461 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1455 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1266 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1268 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 62.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AA Math Index | 57.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 71.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 18.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1429 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1448 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | 84.2% | MiniMax M3 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.5% | 85.4% | MiniMax M3 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 50.4% | 68.1% | MiniMax M3 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.2% | 72.7% | MiniMax M3 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.4% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 84.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1452 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1441 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1437 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1434 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1050 | 1257 | MiniMax M3 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1030 | 1246 | MiniMax M3 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 974 | 1210 | MiniMax M3 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1018 | 1235 | MiniMax M3 |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1209 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1034 | 1247 | MiniMax M3 |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1161 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1161 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 66.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 76.2% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.1% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.6% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.3% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 60.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| IFBench | 41.5% | 82.9% | MiniMax M3 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 53.0% | 83.0% | MiniMax M3 |
| DTBench | Not measured | 78.9% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 33.7% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 85.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CL-bench | 11.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 55.0% | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1404 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1251 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1443 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1420 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1466 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1428 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1380 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1373 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1444 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1433 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1426 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1423 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1443 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1446 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1419 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1403 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1263 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1311 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1259 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1235 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1197 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1234 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1435 | Only MiniMax M3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711$0.0017Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.0009Fits in one request
MiniMax M3 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711$0.035Fits in one request
MiniMax M3$0.019Fits in one request
MiniMax M3 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711$0.137Exceeds the context window
MiniMax M3$0.072Fits in one request
MiniMax M3 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0711 | MiniMax M3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | MiniMax |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | July 11, 2025 | May 31, 2026 |
| Context window | 131K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.57 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.30 | $1.20 |
| Coding index | 64.7 | 57.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.56 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2 0711 better than MiniMax M3 for coding?
Pick Kimi K2 0711 for coding: it scores 64.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.8 for MiniMax M3. Pick MiniMax M3 when output tokens cost 1.9x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 131K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 0711 or MiniMax M3?
Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens; MiniMax M3 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for MiniMax M3 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2 0711 or MiniMax M3?
MiniMax M3, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2 0711 vs MiniMax M3 comparison based on?
20 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2 0711's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M3's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.