Mistral Mistral Small 4 vs Moonshot AI Kimi Linear — side-by-side specs.
Mistral Mistral Small 4 | Moonshot AI Kimi Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Mar 16 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 48B |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi Linear shipped 166 days before Mistral Small 4 | |
Mistral Small 4 and Kimi Linear don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Kimi Linear shipped 166 days before Mistral Small 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Small 4 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Small 4 and Kimi Linear don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.