Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 Mini offers 168.6K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2. Kimi K2 is $21.90 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-5 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-5 family that inherits GPT-5's unified reasoning architecture and multimodal capabilities at a reduced inference cost. It targets high-volume production use cases requiring a balance of intelligence and response speed, offering GPT-5 capabilities for applications where full GPT-5 inference costs are a concern.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2, released by Moonshot AI on July 11, 2025, is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window (expanded from 128K in an September 2025 update) and demonstrated strong performance on agentic coding benchmarks. Kimi K2 targets software engineering agents, tool-use workflows, and open-source deployments under a modified MIT license.
21 days newer
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11

GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
2025-08
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-5 Mini
Kimi K2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI
Kimi K2
GPT-5 Mini
Kimi K2
GPT-5 Mini
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI