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Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Mistral 7B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 50.9 to 7.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index45.422.9
Released2025-11-062023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked2137

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
LMArena Coding14541082
LMArena WebDev1322—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
Chess Puzzles20%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281067
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—111.97
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%0.3%
LMArena Math14291085
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond84.2%15.2%
LMArena Expert14391036
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English13981012
LMArena Chinese14571009
LMArena French14251036
LMArena German1390987
LMArena Japanese1356878
LMArena Russian13901018
LMArena Spanish14071026
LMArena Korean1329—

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14031060

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14151060

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral 7B
LMArena Text14151090
LMArena Creative Writing13731068
LMArena Multi-Turn14141062

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Mistral 7B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Mistral 7B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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