Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $2.30 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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.
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Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Kimi K2
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI