Model comparison
Codestral vs Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 32.5 to 19.8.
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 45.8 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2025-11-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1454 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1428 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 83.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1429 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1439 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1398 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1456 |
| LMArena French | — | 1425 |
| LMArena German | — | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1330 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1391 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1406 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1403 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1415 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1415 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1414 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codestral or Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better for coding?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21.