# Kimi K3 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k3-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M2.7 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K3 leads overall 72.14 to 48.56.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 68.1 for Kimi K3 and 29.2 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 80.9% and 48.7%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K3 also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | MiniMax |
| Type | Pending | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 200K |
| Overall Score | 72.14 | 48.56 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 48 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 68.1 (Supported · #8/119)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 29.2 (Supported · #82/119)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 88.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 73.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 52.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 37.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpreadsheetBench 2 | 34.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DECK-Bench | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.9% | 48.7% | Kimi K3 |
| ApprenticeBench | 18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 57% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 40.40% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 61.4 (Supported · #18/144)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 36 (Supported · #76/144)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 67.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | 72.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| sweMarathon | 42% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrain Bench | 36.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | 48.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 57.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 25.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.2% | 79.9% | Kimi K3 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 93.4% | 73.8% | Kimi K3 |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 32.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 51.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 27.04% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 71.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 65.8 (#18/27)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 76.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 60.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 89.4 (#1/49)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 97.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 23.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WorldVQA ForceAnswer | 51.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench | 91.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 67.9 (Supported · #18/171)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 43.5 (Supported · #88/171)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 93.5% | 87.0% | Kimi K3 |
| HLE | 56% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.9% | 86.6% | Kimi K3 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.0% | 80.4% | Kimi K3 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 91.6 (#10/125)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 52.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K3 or MiniMax M2.7?

Kimi K3 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K3 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 68.1 for Kimi K3 and 29.2 for MiniMax M2.7.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K3 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K3 currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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