Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $4.20 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 Thinking, released by Moonshot AI on November 6, 2025, is a reasoning-focused variant of Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, featuring extended chain-of-thought processing for complex problem solving. It builds on K2's agentic coding strengths with additional capabilities for mathematical and scientific reasoning. Kimi K2 Thinking targets open-source deployments requiring deep, deliberate reasoning across coding and analytical domains.
8 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
2025-11-06
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2 Thinking
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Kimi K2 Thinking
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2 Thinking
Grok 3 mini
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI