Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 offers 752.2K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Thinking. Kimi K2 Thinking is $13.00 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 3 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
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
xAI
2025-02-17
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
2025-11-06
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 3
Kimi K2 Thinking
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
Kimi K2 Thinking
Grok 3
Kimi K2 Thinking
Grok 3
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI