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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest
Vendormistralai~moonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.3-
Input Price$1.50/M$0.99/M
Output Price$7.50/M$12.75/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output209,715943,718
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest
SQL Generation 133 132
Code Review 130 132
Code Completion 115 129
Code Refactoring 131 136
Bug Fixing 134 136
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 126 129
Regex Writing 120 117
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 124 122
Data Analysis 127 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 132
ETL Scripting 125 128
JSON Extraction 122 129
Bulk Data Labeling 119 125
OCR / Document Parsing 129 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 131
Long-Document Summarization 132 136
Short-Form Summarization 115 121
Blog Post Writing 121 120

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

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