Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 0905 leads with 39.8% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 0905 offers 268.3K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $2.90 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Kimi K2 0905 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 was introduced as the second generation of Moonshot's language model family, designed to provide enhanced capabilities across language understanding and generation. Built with architectural improvements and expanded training, it represents a significant advancement in Moonshot's model offerings.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
10 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Kimi K2 0905
Moonshot AI
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Kimi K2 0905

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 0905

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 0905
Novita
ZeroEval

Ministral 8B Instruct

Kimi K2 0905

Ministral 8B Instruct

Kimi K2 0905

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI