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Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs MiniMax-M3

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

MiniMax-M3 MiniMax

43.8

Rank #85 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 2 categories and MiniMax-M3 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M3 leads 58.4 to 50.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 71.1% for MiniMax-M3.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
ProviderMoonshot AIMiniMax
Noometry Index45.843.8
Released2025-11-062026-06-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—512K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2141

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M3 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), MiniMax-M3: 41.8 (#118)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena WebDev13221482
LMArena Coding14541469
FrontierCode—14.7%
SciCode—47.1%
ALE-Bench—640.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, MiniMax-M3: 22.6 (#130)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
APEX-Agents—37.7%
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GBAEval—0.9%
Vending-Bench 2—2,158

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), MiniMax-M3: 30.1 (#87)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
Chess Puzzles20%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281447
SimpleBench—45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—65.1%
CritPt—3.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—8%
DTBench—78.9%
LMCA—33.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.95
ForecastBench—61.4

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), MiniMax-M3: 40.0 (#95)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%71.1%
LMArena Math14291429
ProofBench—18%

Knowledge MiniMax-M3 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), MiniMax-M3: 58.4 (#35)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
GPQA Diamond84.2%90.9%
LMArena Expert14391461

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, MiniMax-M3: 40.2 (#51)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena Vision—1253
LMArena Document—1435

Multilingual MiniMax-M3 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), MiniMax-M3: 53.0 (#75)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena Non-English13981420
LMArena Chinese14561463
LMArena French14251447
LMArena German13901426
LMArena Japanese13571381
LMArena Korean13301372
LMArena Russian13911428
LMArena Spanish14061432

Instruction Following MiniMax-M3 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), MiniMax-M3: 75.5 (#62)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena Instruction Following14031433

Long Context Too close to call

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), MiniMax-M3: 44.2 (#72)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena Longer Query14151445

Writing & Preference MiniMax-M3 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), MiniMax-M3: 62.1 (#83)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M3
LMArena Text14151433
LMArena Creative Writing13741404
LMArena Multi-Turn14141442
EQ-Bench 4—1150

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than MiniMax-M3?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 43.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or MiniMax-M3 better for coding?

MiniMax-M3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and MiniMax-M3 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M3 has 41.

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