Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 1.3% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct-0905 represents a specific release iteration of the K2 Instruct model, developed to incorporate refinements and improvements. Built to provide enhanced instruction-following based on deployment feedback, it continues the evolution of Moonshot's instruction-tuned offerings.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
2 months newer

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
Moonshot AI
2025-09-05
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Magistral Small 2506
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Magistral Small 2506

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Magistral Small 2506