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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Kimi K2

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Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2
Overview
CompanyMistralMoonshot AI
Release dateApr 30 2026Jul 11 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
1T
Context window
128k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
75.1%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
65.8%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi K2 shipped 293 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Kimi K2?

Kimi K2 leads Mistral Medium 3.5 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi K2 shipped 293 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi K2 is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Medium 3.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 30 2026.
When was Kimi K2 released?
Kimi K2 was released by Moonshot AI on Jul 11 2025.
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Kimi K2 open source?
Kimi K2 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Mistral Medium 3.5 is a proprietary model released by Mistral.

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