# Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Mistral Medium 3.1

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-mistral-medium-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.1 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 22.7 to 10.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $0.57 / $2.30 for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 31.5 |
| Rank | 134 | 260 |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.57 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $2.30 | $2 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.02 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1396 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1363 | — |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1416 | — |
| LMArena French | 1379 | — |
| LMArena German | 1386 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1383 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1347 | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | 1476 |
| LMArena Text | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1349 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) lists at $0.57 and $2.30.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.