Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Pixtral Large. Kimi K2 Instruct is $5.13 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral Large supports multimodal inputs. 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
Pixtral Large was developed as a larger-scale multimodal model, designed to provide advanced vision-language understanding capabilities. Built to handle complex tasks requiring sophisticated analysis of visual and textual information, it represents Mistral's flagship offering for multimodal applications.
7 months newer

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI
2024-11-18

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

Kimi K2 Instruct

Pixtral Large
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Pixtral Large

Kimi K2 Instruct

Pixtral Large

Kimi K2 Instruct

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI