Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking offers 70.7K more tokens in context window than o1 mini. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
OpenAI
OpenAI o1 mini, released by OpenAI in September 2024, is a lightweight reasoning model from the o1 family optimized for efficient STEM problem-solving at lower cost and latency. It features a 128K token context window and applies chain-of-thought reasoning specifically tuned for mathematics, science, and coding tasks. o1 mini targets use cases where rapid, cost-efficient reasoning is preferred over the broader capabilities of the full o1 model.
1 year newer

o1 mini
OpenAI
2024-09-12
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
2025-11-06
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Kimi K2 Thinking
o1 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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o1 mini
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o1 mini
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