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Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M2.7

Kimi K3 leads MiniMax M2.7 on coding, 62.3 to 36.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and MiniMax M2.7 costs 12.5x less per output token ($1.20 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 66 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K3 Replace MiniMax M2.7
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
62.3
Overall
66.5
Output $/M
$15.00
66
MiniMax M2.7MiniMax
Coding
36.2
Overall
44.5
Output $/M
$1.20
0
vs boards won of 66 shared

Kimi K3 or MiniMax M2.7: which to pick

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 12.5x cheaper ($1.20 vs $15.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $0.81).

Model AKimi K3Moonshot AI62.3/1006 independent benchmarks$0.81 per solved taskModel BMiniMax M2.7MiniMax36.2/1003 independent benchmarks$0.64 per solved task
Shared results
66
Kimi K3 only
51
MiniMax M2.7 only
8
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

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.

At a glance

Coding index
Kimi K3 62.3 from 6 benchmarks, MiniMax M2.7 36.2 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 35.8 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
ProofBench: Kimi K3 87.0% against MiniMax M2.7 3.0%, 84.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K3 $15.00 against MiniMax M2.7 $1.20 per million output tokens, 12.5x apart.
Context window
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M tokens, MiniMax M2.7 205K.

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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryKimi K3BarsMiniMax M2.7Ties
Coding150
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning60
Math30
Knowledge90
Web design70
General190
All shared boards660
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index150
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
LiveBench coding59.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev16551399Kimi K3
AA Coding Index76.252.6Kimi K3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.2%79.9%Kimi K3
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)93.4%73.8%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)85.0%11.9%Kimi K3
Code migration (Vals AI)16.1%8.7%Kimi K3
ProgramBench (Vals AI)2.0%0.0%Kimi K3
IOI (Vals AI)48.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)80.9%48.7%Kimi K3
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)18.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)75.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SciCode59.5%50.1%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured39.4%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Terminal-BenchNot measured45.1%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
FrontierCode44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierSWE25.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML82.6%37.0%Kimi K3
ALE-Bench1524.5599.3Kimi K3
LMArena Text: coding15081454Kimi K3
LMArena Text: software and IT14991446Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: React16701388Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: HTML16441401Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: from an image1579Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
AA Intelligence Index43.622.8Kimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index157.9145.8Kimi K3
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
AA Agentic Index50.015.3Kimi K3
Design Arena: agents building web apps1295Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1315Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1269Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1253Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1223Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1252Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1206Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1247Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1070Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench research79.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench browser16.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench long agentic42.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.1%27.9%Kimi K3
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.4%6.9%Kimi K3
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)46.1%10.6%Kimi K3
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)12.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)66.7%28.4%Kimi K3
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)1.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)10.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured84.8%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
APEX-Agents47.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
PostTrainBench32.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$5,165Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
GPQA Diamond92.9%86.6%Kimi K3
LiveBench reasoning90.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)88.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)93.5%87.4%Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)46.9%29.6%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)93.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ARC-AGI94.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ARC-AGI-260.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SimpleBench60.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Chess puzzles37.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Mystery game puzzles26.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14951422Kimi K3
LMArena Text: expert15201443Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14961441Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
Math benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
AIMENot measured91.0%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
OTIS Mock AIME97.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 372.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierMath, tier 439.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProofBench87.0%3.0%Kimi K3
LMArena Text: math14941421Kimi K3
LMArena Text: mathematical work15051437Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
MMLU Pro88.0%80.4%Kimi K3
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.2%84.0%Kimi K3
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured60.9%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)71.6%61.2%Kimi K3
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.7%66.6%Kimi K3
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.4%34.4%Kimi K3
SimpleQA Verified50.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: science15081416Kimi K3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14891409Kimi K3
LMArena Text: legal and government15031403Kimi K3
LMArena Text: business and finance14701407Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
Design Arena: websites13341243Kimi K3
Design Arena: UI components13411210Kimi K3
Design Arena: game dev13581209Kimi K3
Design Arena: data viz13511233Kimi K3
Design Arena: 3D13871195Kimi K3
Design Arena: all code categories13601233Kimi K3
Design Arena: SVG13021137Kimi K3
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1136Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LiveBench design77.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index190
General benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
Vals Index53.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench data analysis78.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)68.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)52.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)88.0%79.9%Kimi K3
Vals Multimodal Index73.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
IFBenchNot measured75.7%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)88.7%78.3%Kimi K3
DTBench91.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMCA52.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Surface Evolver Bench95.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assembly34.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ExploitBenchNot measured13.3%Only MiniMax M2.7 measured
LMArena Text14761405Kimi K3
LMArena Text: instruction following14851405Kimi K3
LMArena Text: creative writing14571354Kimi K3
LMArena Text: English14811426Kimi K3
LMArena Text: non-English14661382Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Chinese15291442Kimi K3
LMArena Text: German14901398Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Japanese14941260Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Korean14601314Kimi K3
LMArena Text: French14921424Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Spanish14721402Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Russian14851383Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Polish14581387Kimi K3
LMArena Text: multi-turn14891412Kimi K3
LMArena Text: longer queries14941418Kimi K3
LMArena Text: writing and language14711376Kimi K3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14531360Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
BenchmarkKimi K3MiniMax M2.7Leader
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 K3$0.011Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.7$0.0009Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.195Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.7$0.019Fits in one request

MiniMax M2.7 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.750Fits in one request
MiniMax M2.7$0.072Exceeds the context window

MiniMax M2.7 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.

Specifications of Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K3MiniMax M2.7
MakerMoonshot AIMiniMax
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedJuly 16, 2026March 18, 2026
Context window1.05M205K
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$15.00$1.20
Coding index62.336.2
Independent measurements behind it63
Cost per solved task$0.81$0.64
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K3 better than MiniMax M2.7 for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.2 for MiniMax M2.7. Pick MiniMax M2.7 for output tokens 12.5x cheaper ($1.20 vs $15.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.64 against $0.81).

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or MiniMax M2.7?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; MiniMax M2.7 costs $0.30 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Kimi K3 costs $0.81 and MiniMax M2.7 $0.64.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K3 or MiniMax M2.7?

Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 205K.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M2.7 comparison based on?

66 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Kimi K3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and MiniMax M2.7's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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