Models / Compare /MiniMax M2.5 vs Kimi K2.7 Code
Head to head
MiniMax M2.5 vs Kimi K2.7 Code
Compared on live catalog data — pricing synced daily, benchmark scores with provenance.
The short version
- MiniMax M2.5 is cheaper to run hosted: $0.90/M output vs $3.50/M for Kimi K2.7 Code (3.9× difference at the cheapest tracked provider).
- Kimi K2.7 Code takes 262K tokens of context vs 205K for MiniMax M2.5.
- Kimi K2.7 Code scores 1472.5712 on Arena Code (WebDev) vs 1386.2661 for MiniMax M2.5.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | MiniMax | Moonshot AI |
| Parameters | 229B | 1.1T / 32B |
| 205K | 262K | |
| Weights | OPEN* | OPEN* |
| License | Custom licence | Custom licence |
| Modality | text->text | text+image->text |
| Released | Feb 12, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 |
| 144.2 GBest | 667.5 GBest | |
| Cheapest hosted | $0.15 / $0.90 per 1M (OpenRouter) | $0.73 / $3.50 per 1M (OpenRouter) |
| Tracked providers | 17 | 20 |
MiniMax M2.5 — our take
MiniMax M2.5 is a large text-only model with 228.7 billion parameters, released in early 2026. Its standout feature is a coding score that sits well above its general chat rating, though a custom restricted licence and lack of multimodal support limit where it fits.
full breakdown →Kimi K2.7 Code — our take
Moonshot's very large coding model can be downloaded. At over a trillion parameters it is an unusually large model to be downloadable at all, aimed at agentic coding workloads where scale matters.
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