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MiniMax M3 vs Kimi-K2.6

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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MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Provider
MiniMax
Moonshot
Family
MiniMax M
Kimi
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
262,144 tok
Max output
4,096 tok
16,384 tok
Released
2026-06-01
2026-04-20
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
$0.300 /1M
$0.950 /1M
Output price
$1.20 /1M
$4.00 /1M
Cache read
—
$0.160 /1M
Tools
—
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
—
yes
JSON mode
—
yes
Reasoning
—
yes
Prompt caching
—
yes
Batch API
—
—
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MiniMax M3
minimax/m3
Full spec →

MiniMax's M3 language model with frontier coding and agentic capabilities, a 1M token context window, and multilingual support.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Full spec →

Kimi K2.6 is a frontier-scale open-source 1T parameter model with a 262.1k context window, multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs for agentic workloads.

Strengths
  • Frontier-scale 1T parameters, open-weight
  • ~10× cheaper than Opus
  • Multi-turn tool calling + vision
Use cases
Code agentsLong-document reasoningCost-conscious production

Benchmarks

MiniMax M3
Kimi-K2.6
HumanEval
—
92.7
SWE-Bench
—
68.2

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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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 M3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="minimax/m3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Kimi-K2.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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