Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2.5 offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $6.70 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 K2.5, released by Moonshot AI in January 2026, is an updated Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters. It builds on Kimi K2 with improved coding performance across multiple languages and an expanded context window. Kimi K2.5 targets agentic development workflows, polyglot code generation, and open-source deployments requiring large-scale MoE reasoning.
10 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
2026-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Kimi K2.5
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2.5
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI