Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Magistral Medium

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 39.0 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 10% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 0.3% for Magistral Medium.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper at $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and Magistral Medium specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index43.335.2
Released2026-06-122025-03-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output262K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$2
Output $ / M tokens$4$5
Results tracked1922

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
SciCode47.5%39.2%
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
LMArena WebDev1473—
WeirdML54.1%—
LMArena Coding—1319
ALE-Bench886.23—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Magistral Medium: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
APEX-Agents37.6%—
GBAEval0.9%—
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
CritPt10%0.3%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench57.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
Chess Puzzles21%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1267
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97—

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
LMArena Math—1250

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
GPQA Diamond87.9%—
SimpleQA Verified36.5%—
LMArena Expert—1223

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
LMArena Non-English—1232
LMArena Chinese—1227
LMArena French—1267
LMArena German—1248
LMArena Japanese—1175
LMArena Korean—1125
LMArena Russian—1224
LMArena Spanish—1271

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query—1295

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMagistral Medium
LMArena Text—1255
LMArena Creative Writing—1245
LMArena Multi-Turn—1275

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Magistral Medium?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.7 Code or Magistral Medium?

Kimi K2.7 Code 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 K2.7 Code or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.7 Code and Magistral Medium share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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