Compare AI models: MiniMax-M2.5 vs Kimi K2.6

MiniMax-M2.5MiniMaxHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details
Kimi K2.6MoonshotHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
MiniMax-M2.5	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	51/100	56/100	50/100	0/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark
Kimi K2.6	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	78/100	35/100	63/100	50/100	27/100

Overview

Author

MiniMax

Moonshot

Context length

205K

262K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text

Text, Image, Video

Output modalities

Text

Providers

MiniMax

Moonshot

Pricing

Input

$0.30/ 1M

$0.77/ 1M

Output

$1.20/ 1M

$3.40/ 1M

Cached input

$0.03/ 1M

$0.14/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

27K

70K

Completed sessions

85,331

238,477

Token share

0.01%

Tokens

12B-60%

117B-81%

SEP 3OCT 28

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

63.1%179 user-weeks

56.6%2.7K user-weeks

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