Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Mistral Medium

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Medium in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 53.5 to 25.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper at $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and Mistral Medium specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index43.336.3
Released2026-06-122023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output262K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$4$7.50
Results tracked1936

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
FrontierCode30.1%8%
SciCode47.5%40.2%
WeirdML54.1%43.7%
ALE-Bench886.23763.98
DeepSWE30.5%—
LMArena WebDev1473—
LMArena Coding—1434

Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Medium leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
APEX-Agents37.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%
GBAEval0.9%—
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
CritPt10%0%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%26.9%
SimpleBench57.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
Chess Puzzles21%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1426
DTBench—75.5%
LMCA—26.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97—

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%32.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
ProofBench—9%
LMArena Math—1408
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
GPQA Diamond87.9%59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
LMArena Expert—1408

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English—1408
LMArena Chinese—1447
LMArena French—1459
LMArena German—1432
LMArena Japanese—1378
LMArena Korean—1380
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1433

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following—1398

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query—1406

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeMistral Medium
LMArena Text—1424
LMArena Creative Writing—1391
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1418

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Mistral Medium?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper. It lists at $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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