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| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 128B | — |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 256k | 128k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | $1.50 | — |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | $7.50 | — |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $1.50Mistral | — |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $7.50Mistral | — |
These models have no shared benchmark scores. | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 77.6% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Apr 29 2026 | Jan 20 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Closed |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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Mistral Medium 3.5 and Kimi K1.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a verified first-party API price: $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Kimi K1.5. Kimi K1.5 shipped 464 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 128k (Kimi K1.5). Mistral Medium 3.5 is open weight, while Kimi K1.5 is closed.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and Kimi K1.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.