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Grok-3 Mini vs Kimi K2 Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 25.5% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 126.1K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Grok-3 Mini is $2.07 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
4 months newer
Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok-3 Mini
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50($2.07 cheaper)
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Input:$0.57
Output:$2.30
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
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Grok-3 Mini
Average Score:90.2%(+25.5%)
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Average Score:64.7%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Grok-3 Mini
1 providers
xAI
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms
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Kimi K2 Instruct
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Grok-3 Mini
Avg Score:90.2%(+25.5%)
Providers:1
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Avg Score:64.7%
Providers:1