Model comparison
Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Mistral Large
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 60.8 to 40.9.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 31.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.3 (#95), Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1277 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1404 | — |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: —, Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 28.5 (#88), Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 36.6 (#105), Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1443 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#121), Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1438 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#47), Mistral Large: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.2 (#89), Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1406 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1403 | 1324 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1254 |
| LMArena Korean | 1378 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1404 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1268 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1187 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.5 (#61), Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1430 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.8 (#82), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1262 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.8 (#91), Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1420 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1379 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1427 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Mistral Large?
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Mistral Large better for coding?
Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Mistral Large share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.