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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest
Vendor~openai~moonshotai
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.75/M$0.16/M
Output Price$4.50/M$10.14/M
Context Window400,0001,048,576
Max Output128,000943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT Mini Latest costs $1.88 and Kimi Latest costs $2.69, so GPT Mini Latest is about 1.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Kimi Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 600 pages for GPT Mini Latest.

Only Kimi Latest offers video input.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, GPT Mini Latest scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Pick GPT Mini Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Kimi Latest if you need long documents or video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestMoonshotAI: Kimi Latest
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 130 129
Code Documentation 130 129
Regex Writing 119 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 130 129
Bulk Data Labeling 128 126
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 123 121
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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