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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendor~moonshotaimistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-3.8
Input Price$0.99/M$0.15/M
Output Price$12.75/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718209,715
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-9.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestMistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 132 132
Code Review 132 128
Code Refactoring 136 129
Bug Fixing 136 132
Unit Test Generation 124 122
Code Documentation 129 127
Regex Writing 117 120
CI/CD Pipelines 120 118
Frontend Component Design 122 123
Data Analysis 124 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 128
ETL Scripting 128 123
JSON Extraction 129 131
Bulk Data Labeling 125 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 136 131
Short-Form Summarization 121 124
Blog Post Writing 120 120

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

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