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Kimi K2 Instruct vs Magistral Small 2506
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 2.5% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
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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.
1 month newer
Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Average Score:64.7%
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Magistral Small 2506
Average Score:67.2%(+2.5%)
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Kimi K2 Instruct
1 providers
Novita
Throughput: 45 tok/s
Latency: 0.95ms
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Magistral Small 2506
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Avg Score:64.7%
Providers:1
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Magistral Small 2506
Avg Score:67.2%(+2.5%)
Providers:0