Head-to-Head Model Comparison

MiniMax-M3 vs Kimi K2.7 Code

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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MiniMax-M3

IA Multimodale Nativa

MiniMax-M3 di MiniMax è un modello di IA progettato per la comprensione multimodale nativa di testo e immagini e l’analisi visiva dei documenti, con finestra di contesto da 524K, velocità di 70 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 89/100 e ta

Intelligence Index89 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

524.3K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

65%

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.7 Code

Specialista Codice Open-Weights

Kimi K2.7 Code di Moonshot AI è un modello di IA progettato per lo sviluppo software e la generazione di codice con pesi aperti auto-ospitabili, con finestra di contesto da 262K, velocità di 75 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 89/100 e ta

Intelligence Index89 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

62%

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
MiniMax-M3 has a larger context window (524K vs 262K tokens).
Kimi K2.7 Code is faster at 75 tok/s vs 70 tok/s.
MiniMax-M3 leads on SWE-bench coding (65.0% vs 62.0%).

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Feature	MiniMax-M3	Kimi K2.7 Code
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	89	89
Provider	MiniMax	Moonshot AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	524.3K tokens~786 A4 pages of text	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	32K	32K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	70 tok/s	75 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	65%	62%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	72%	73%

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

MiniMax-M3

+3.0% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Speed

Kimi K2.7 Code

+7% faster generation

Context

MiniMax-M3

524.3K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

MiniMax-M3Kimi K2.7 Code

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

65%vs62%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

72%vs73%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

85%vs85%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1420ptsvs1415pts

LiveCodeBench (Competitive Coding)

Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.

N/Avs74%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

70 tok/s vs75 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

MiniMax-M30.56s

Kimi K2.7 Code0.48s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

MiniMax-M37.70s

Kimi K2.7 Code7.15s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

MiniMax-M3 Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

Kimi K2.7 Code Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

These models cost the same under this workload — no savings either way.Break-even

MiniMax-M3 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 524K con capacità massima di output fino a 32K token (SWE-bench Verified 65% · GPQA Diamond 72%)
Throughput elevato di 70 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 560 ms
Pesi aperti (Confidential / 300B MoE) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Kimi K2.7 Code · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 262K con capacità massima di output fino a 32K token (SWE-bench Verified 62% · GPQA Diamond 73%)
Throughput elevato di 75 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 480 ms
Pesi aperti (1.5T total (40B MoE)) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	MiniMax-M3	Kimi K2.7 Code
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.00
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	28K	26K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	10K	5K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

MiniMax-M3 vs Kimi K2.7 Code: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which model is faster?

Kimi K2.7 Code is faster, generating 75 tokens per second compared with 70 tokens per second.

Which model has lower latency?

Kimi K2.7 Code has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.48s compared with 0.56s.

Which model has a larger context window?

MiniMax-M3 has a larger context window, supporting 524.3K tokens compared with 262.1K tokens.

Verdetto

Sia MiniMax-M3 (Ideale per la comprensione multimodale nativa di testo e immagini e l’analisi visiva dei documenti, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Kimi K2.7 Code (Ideale per lo sviluppo software e la generazione di codice con pesi aperti auto-ospitabili, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: MiniMax-M3 guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Kimi K2.7 Code garantisce una generazione più rapida e MiniMax-M3 offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, MiniMax-M3 o Kimi K2.7 Code?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale MiniMax-M3. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra MiniMax-M3 e Kimi K2.7 Code?+

MiniMax-M3 costa $0.00 / $0.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Kimi K2.7 Code costa $0.00 / $0.00. Nel costo combinato, MiniMax-M3 risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

MiniMax-M3 supporta 524.3K token di contesto contro 262.1K token di Kimi K2.7 Code, mentre Kimi K2.7 Code offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Tokens & Pricing Context Window AI Benchmarks Reasoning Models Tool Calling Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Feature	MiniMax-M3	Kimi K2.7 Code
Official API Model ID (SDK)	minimax-m3	kimi-k2-7-code
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-06	2026-06
Knowledge Cutoff	February 2026	April 2026
Architecture	Multimodal Long-Context Sparse MoE Transformer	Code-Optimized Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Transformer
Parameters	Confidential / 300B MoE	1.5T total (40B active MoE)
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 186 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 645 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 930 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 3225 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

MiniMax-M3 vs Kimi K2.7 Code

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

MiniMax-M3

Kimi K2.7 Code

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

MiniMax-M3 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Kimi K2.7 Code · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

MiniMax-M3 vs Kimi K2.7 Code: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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