Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 3.7% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Mistral Large 2. Kimi K2 Instruct is $5.13 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
Mistral AI
Mistral Large 2 was introduced as the second generation of Mistral's flagship model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities across diverse language tasks. Built with enhanced reasoning, coding, and multilingual abilities, it represents Mistral's most advanced offering for enterprise and demanding applications.
11 months newer

Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI
2024-07-24

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Kimi K2 Instruct

Mistral Large 2
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

Mistral Large 2
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Mistral Large 2

Kimi K2 Instruct

Mistral Large 2

Kimi K2 Instruct

Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI