Side-by-side comparison of Kimi-K2.6 (Moonshot AI · China) and MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMax AI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi-K2.6 is rated conditional; MiniMax-M2.7 is blocked. They part ways on licence: Kimi-K2.6 is "Modified MIT", MiniMax-M2.7 is "MiniMax Non-Commercial License".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, Kimi-K2.6 ships under a Modified MIT licence: identical to standard MIT for almost all deployers, with an additional UI-attribution requirement only for products exceeding 100M monthly active users or USD 20M monthly revenue. The genuine EU-readiness concerns are the China-based vendor and the absence of any training-data disclosure rather than the licence itself. | Blocked Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | MiniMax Non-Commercial License |
| Commercial use | Attribution at scale | Non-commercial only |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 54/100 | 50/100 |
| Speed | — | 46 tok/s |
| Blended price | $1.71/M | $0.53/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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No overlapping sources between the two entries.