Model comparison
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs MiniMax M1
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MiniMaxSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and MiniMax M1 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 53.1.
- Both cost about the same: $0.57 input and $2.30 output per million tokens.
- MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
Side by side
| Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 41.2 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2025-07-12 | 2025-06-13 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 262K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.57 | $0.55 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.30 | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102), MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | 1359 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64), MiniMax M1: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |
Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179), MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 1339 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.01 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83), MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1397 | 1361 |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157), MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1365 | 1317 |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130), MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1415 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1379 | 1370 |
| LMArena German | 1387 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | 1217 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 1266 |
| LMArena Russian | 1385 | 1329 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | 1353 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156), MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1348 | 1312 |
| IFEval | 85% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145), MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | 1326 |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78), MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | MiniMax M1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | 1343 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1350 | 1298 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1335 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than MiniMax M1?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and MiniMax M1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 40.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or MiniMax M1?
MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) lists at $0.57 and $2.30.
Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or MiniMax M1 better for coding?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and MiniMax M1 share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax M1 has 18.