Model comparison
Kimi K2.6 vs Magistral Medium
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.6 leads 40.5 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 53.5% for Kimi K2.6 and 39.2% for Magistral Medium.
- Kimi K2.6 is cheaper at $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 47.7 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2026-04-20 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 262K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.95 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4 | $5 |
| Results tracked | 51 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 53.5% | 39.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | 1319 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1509 | — |
| WeirdML | 55.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,093 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6% | — |
| ExploitBench | 18.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 0.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 12% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,205 | — |
Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 8% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1470 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 87.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 26% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 2.4% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 18% | — |
| DTBench | 90.9% | — |
| LMCA | 37.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 151.05 | — |
Math Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1475 | 1250 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 57.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 25.6% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 72.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 96.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 16% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1491 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1283 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 3.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 21.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1451 | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1446 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1521 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1450 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1443 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1446 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1464 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1451 | 1254 |
Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1468 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1455 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1434 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | 1275 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1725 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1202 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.6 better than Magistral Medium?
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.6 or Magistral Medium?
Kimi K2.6 is cheaper. It lists at $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Kimi K2.6 or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and Magistral Medium share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.