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MiniMax H3 Max Text to Video vs Kimi K3

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
Provider
MiniMax
Moonshot
Family
Modality
video
text
Context window
1,048,576 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
Released
2026-09-16
2026-07-16
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$3.00 /1M
Output price
$15.00 /1M
Per output second
$0.025 /sec
Tools
yes
Streaming
yes
Vision
yes
JSON mode
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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MiniMax H3 Max Text to Video
minimax/h3-max
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fal's H3 Max is a post-trained variant of MiniMax H3, tuned for stronger prompt adherence and better aesthetics while co-optimized with our custom inference stack for higher throughput with no compromises on output quality

Strengths
  • Text-to-video generation
  • Cinematic motion
Use cases
AdsStoryboardsDemos
Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
Full spec →

Kimi K3 is Moonshot's flagship 2.8 trillion-parameter model, built on Kimi Delta Attention (a hybrid linear attention mechanism) with Attention Residuals. It offers native visual understanding, always-on reasoning, and a 1M-token context window for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning tasks.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# MiniMax H3 Max Text to Video
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/h3-max",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Kimi K3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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